Salt Dough | Craft Ideas
It's also a great 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 water color paints.
Here you can check out a video on Salt Dough and other handy craft ideas.
Warning - due to salt dough containing lots of salt, which may be a hazard to kids if eaten - salt dough in not edible!!
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
The water should be luke warm, as this warms the dough up and helps the kneading process.
Not essential - you can add a drop of cooking or olive oil to add a bit of stretch to the final dough.
Not Essential Some dough crafters add wallpaper paste or a little pva or elmers glue into their mix experiment with your own recipes
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.
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.
Now this can be a little messy, so you may want to use gloves. Start with a little paint, then add more, little by little, kneading into the dough as you go. If it gets too wet with paint, you can add more flour. Knead it all well.
QUESTION RECEIVED: "Can I color the dough AFTER it has been made, instead of mix the paint into the dough?" Morag
ANSWER: Yes. You can make your character or item first in plain white salt dough. Once cooked and cooled, you paint your salt dough item with any type of paint. thanks Diane
Brown Salt Dough Colored with Acrylic Paint
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stylish salt dough projects
Of course it remains a firm favorite for kid crafts ideas on rainy days.
Salt dough is always fun.
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Salt Dough Sheep Character
salt dough modeling craft character
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DianeStafford wrote...
in reply to Jess You can make any sized item as long as it fits in your oven. You can use, say cardboard, or stiff paper model as a support (former) for the shape you want and roll the salt dough, then place it around the model, to support it whilst it 'cooks' (dries). Hope that helps.
Posted March 19, 2009
DianeStafford wrote...
in reply to Rose Yes it can be a bit sticky, experiment with a little less water maybe. You can make virtually anything.
Posted March 19, 2009
Jess wrote
Can you make other things out of it, bigger, for example a model volcano??
Posted March 19, 2009
Rose wrote
loved this its great fun very sticky though!
What else can I make?
Posted March 14, 2009
DianeStafford wrote...
in reply to annie Absolutely yes you can make flowers with salt dough. If you pinch it, or roll it, the dough can be thinned and shaped into virtually any flower. You can use flower cutters (as icing flower cutters) too. Have fun .
Posted March 08, 2009
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