We made salt dough in 1st grade. All students measured and mixed the ingredients.
Salt Dough Recipe
1 ½ cups flour
1 ½ cups salt
Scant 1 cup of water
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
Mix flour and salt. Gradually add water and mix together. Add vegetable oil and mix. Sprinkle flour on work surface. Knead the flour mixture until firm. Wrap mixture in plastic wrap and place in plastic bag and place into the fridge for 30 minutes.
Roll the salt dough out on floured surface and floured rolling pin. Use cookie cutters to make your designs.
Leave the salt dough to harden at room temperature for several days. When dried you may paint with paint. You may bake them in the oven for 4 hours at 225 degrees.
We used insect cookie cutters to cut out our salt dough.
Baked them in the oven for 4 hours at 225 degrees.
Then we painted them.
The students used alot of spring colors to paint with.
This bee is very colorful!
Look at those pretty purple eyes on that ladybug.
When dried we will varnish them to protect them.
