Salt Dough Crafts
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Salt Dough Crafts and Craft Ideas
Salt Dough Crafts and Ideas: Salt dough crafts is a great way to model favorite fun characters, Easter favorites, Christmas decorations or even ornaments and handmade gifts.
It's also a great kids craft as a modeling dough, similar to playdough, but the kids can make this themselves and only need adult help or supervision on the cooking|drying stage and final varnish sealing stage.
Salt Dough can be colored with food coloring, natural things such as cocoa powder, paprika, saffron (although very expensive) or acrylic paint.
Or, Salt Dough can be painted once dry with poster paints, acrylic or even watercolor paints.
Safety - Salt dough contains lots of salt, which can be a hazard to kids if eaten - salt dough in not edible!!
Salt Dough Craft for Kids
Kindle eBook Now Available
Salt Dough Craft for Kids
Amazon Price: (as of 02/14/2012)
Salt Dough Craft for Kids expands on my Salt Dough craft lens.
Hidden inside the ebook is your SECRET PASSWORD which you can use to download a few 'extras' - including the salt dough sheep character shapes ... and more.
NOTE : If you don't have a Kindle, you can download a free Kindle Reader App for your computer here.
1 cup of imagination
1 batch of salt dough
1 pot of paints
...mix together with your own
creativity for hours of fun.
Salt Dough Recipe
Salt Dough Recipe for Modeling Craft Ideas
. 2 level cups of normal plain flour. 1 level cup of fine cooking salt
. 3/4 cup of water
Not Essential Some dough crafters add wallpaper paste or a little pva or elmers glue into their mix experiment with your own recipes
My Personal Preference Is NOT to add anything else - you really don't need to. Leaving it natural works perfectly fine, why mess with perfection :-)
Add Water & Mix Salt Dough
Kneading Salt Dough 10-20 minutes
Modeling Craft Ideas
smooth kneaded salt dough ready for modeling
Once you have kneaded your salt dough, it will be smooth and white, pliable and won't stick to your hands or your work surface.Now decide what you are going to make, will it be a favorite cartoon character, a bowl, an intricate ornament or a Christmas decoration?
Do you need to color some of your salt dough before you model it?
Are you going to paint your salt dough character after you have made it?
You will find more modeling craft ideas here.
Christmas Craft Ideas : Modern Salt Dough Modeling Crafts
stylish salt dough projects
Salt dough is making a come back, no longer is it a stuffy or old fashioned craft. Designs are getting stylishly sophisticated and increasingly being used to decorate stylish homes.
Of course it remains a firm favorite for kid crafts ideas on rainy days.
Salt dough is always fun.
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Colouring Salt Dough
add color to salt dough
Salt dough can be colored at this stage if you want to use different colors to make different elements of your character or craft item.This photo shows the addition of dark brown acrylic paint, which is then kneaded into the dough to create a dark brown dough, which you see has been used for the legs and ears of the salt dough sheep.
Part of our Salt Dough Crafts Series
Salt Dough Craft Sheep Character
salt dough craft modeling sheep character
How to make a salt dough sheep character.Full instructions are shown in "Salt Dough Craft for Kids" eBook, with Secret Password to download shapes sheet :-)
Making Salt Dough Sheep Fleece
garlic press your fleece
Salt dough craft recipe is made with non toxic materials, so it's safe to use your kitchen garlic press to press out your salt dough sheep fleece, characters hair or other trimmings and craft adornments. Just remember to give it a good wash before reusing.
Salt Dough Snowman Model
This Snowman Christmas Decoration : Kids Crafts Tutorial... shows you how to make a plaster of paris snowman.
However, you can adapt this method, to use salt dough in the mould, bake as normal, and decorate once dried out.
Crafting with Kids
holiday craft ideas
Kids on school holidays? Crafting is a great way to encourage your kids to express themselves creatively. There are appealing ideas for making great gifts, costumes, seasonal decorations and plenty of other fun things they can do on rainy holiday afternoons.
Teach Yourself VISUALLY Crafting with Kids (Teach Yourself VISUALLY Consumer)
Amazon Price: $12.88 (as of 02/14/2012)
The best part about these craft projects is that every project can be completed in five or less steps - just follow the simple step-by-step instructions and you and the kids simply can't go wrong!
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luckyone924
Nov 14, 2011 @ 10:16 pm | delete
- as a child my mom and I made candy canes and dyed some of the dough red I still hae a few of them! great lens!
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DianeStafford
Nov 15, 2011 @ 6:38 am | delete
- thanks luckyone, salt dough candy canes look great, plus fab to know you've still got some, salt dough items can last for years.
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vanana
Nov 12, 2011 @ 3:04 am | delete
- i thought you can air dry them, after 2 days, my work is still soft and kind of wet on the surface, any idea where i gone wrong?
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DianeStafford
Nov 12, 2011 @ 6:03 am | delete
- Hi Vanana, you should be able to rescue your work if you dry/bake them in the oven on a low heat until thoroughly dry/baked. Salt attracts moisture from the air which could be the problem for you with air drying. Hope that helps. Diane :-)
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JoshK47
Oct 28, 2011 @ 10:37 am | delete
- How fun! Blessed by a SquidAngel!
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