Salt dough figures: handicrafts with children aged 3 and over
Your children love to knead but find it a pity that their works of art break so quickly? This cannot happen with salt dough, because it hardens after baking. Your children can also paint the dough colorfully.
Age: from 3 years
What you need: 2 cups of flour, 1 cup of salt, water
Instructions for making salt dough figures
Dough:
Knead all the ingredients into a firm but smooth dough. If the dough is too dry, add a little more water. You can color the dough with food coloring because the children have a lot of fun tinkering with colored dough. But be careful: the food colors fade during baking!
Now it can start:
Now the children can start kneading, rolling and shaping. The children can make all sorts of shapes, for example figurines, baskets, bowls, etc. Even smaller children can do wonderful things with salt dough. For example, you can give them cookie cutters that they can use to cut out beautiful shapes. You can also make a handprint of the little ones by rolling out a lump of dough into a circle, but not too flat. Then the child presses his hand in the middle and the handprint is ready.
Important: If the children have formed something that is to be hung up later, then you must not forget to punch the object before you let it dry!
When the children have finished their creations, let the dough dry at room temperature for a day. After drying, put the dough in the preheated oven and bake it at 150°C for 30-40 minutes (depending on how thick the dough is).
Once the dough has cooled, the children can color the dough to their hearts’ content if they wish. You can use watercolors for this, which then have to be fixed with clear varnish. Acrylic paints no longer require fixing, but should only be used by older children.
Wonderful things can be made with salt dough and the children can let their imagination run wild when making handicrafts.