Salt Dough Ornaments | Do a Barrel Roll

In search of a easy home made decoration that children could make? These Salt Dough Ornaments are excellent for kids of all ages – youthful youngsters may also help make and roll the dough, and lower and adorn shapes, older kids can take cost of the method from begin to end.

For extra Christmas decoration DIY tutorials for kids from preschool to high school age in our publish, Christmas Decorations for Youngsters to Make.

Salt Dough Ornaments: Recipe & Tutorial

Don’t have the elements for salt dough helpful? Our three ingredient Air Dry Modelling Clay will work too.

You will want – for salt dough:

1½ cups white flour
1 cup salt
¾ cup water
Extra flour for dusting fingers
Baking paper
Baking tray
Mixing bowl
Rolling pin
Cookie cutters

For adorning:

Little one pleasant acrylic paint
String or yarn

Methods to make:

1. Preheat the oven on low to 200˚F/100˚C.

2. Combine the flour and salt collectively properly.

three. Slowly add the water.

four. Combine properly.

5. Mud fingers with flour. Type dough right into a ball. Put aside.

6. Line a piece space with baking paper.

7. Mud your fingers and lined space with flour. You’ll wish to be sure you cowl the realm properly or the dough will stick with the paper. Place the dough ball on the dusted desk space.

eight. Roll the dough out to desired thickness with a floured rolling pin.

9. Use cookie cutters to chop shapes out of the dough.

Tip: After pushing the cookie cutter down into the dough, we wiggled it round somewhat bit to assist the dough raise from the baking paper.

10. Line the baking tray with baking paper.

11. Place the salt dough shapes onto the baking tray, preserving them at the very least 2-3cm/1 inch aside.

Tip: You probably have extra dough left over, you possibly can roll it again up right into a ball after which re-roll the dough out to create extra shapes.

12. Add holes to the dough towards the highest of every form with a ingesting straw.