How do you make salt dough?

What you need:

• 2 cups of flour
• 1 cup of salt
• 1 cup of water
• 1 teaspoon oil
• possibly. Food colors for colored salt dough
• 1 bowl
• colorful water paints
• paint brush
• Water glass
• Oilcloth blanket
• Hand mixer with dough hook
• Baking sheet
• patience

There are many different recipes for one salt dough to the Handcraft. But how do you make the dough exactly? Here you will find the right recipe for a salt dough. Salt dough is something very exciting for children and makes some gray rainy days really exciting and exciting.

This is how the child-friendly craft dough is made

At the beginning you should have all the ingredients for the craft dough ready. For a simple composition of the dough you need the ingredients in cups. There should be about 200 ml in each cup. Put all the filled cups and the large bowl ready on the crafting table. Also, put a mat on the table beforehand, an oilcloth blanket is best. So something can go wrong without hesitation. When you do handicrafts with children, it happens quite often. Prepare the salt dough together with your children, because preparing it is very exciting and brings joy for the little ones.

1. Put all the ingredients that are in the cups in the large bowl, as well as the oil. Use the hand mixer and the dough hook to knead the dough until it is firm.
2. If the dough is too dry, add a little more water. Please be economical and careful here, otherwise the salt dough will be too runny.
3. If you or your children would rather have colored salt dough for handicrafts, you can now color the dough with the food coloring. Otherwise, you can only paint the finished salt dough with water-based paints after it has been baked.


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This is how the salt dough is baked

After the handicrafts, kneading and molding, the works of art now have to be baked.

1. Before you bake the salt dough, let the finished works of art dry for a day at room temperature.
2. Then heat the oven to approx. 50 degrees ahead.
3. Now place the works of art on a baking sheet and carefully slide it into the preheated oven.
4. Depending on the thickness and shape of the salt dough, leave the material for approx. one to two hours in the preheated oven. If you want to bake it faster, you can set the oven to approx. 100 degrees. But you have to be very careful here, because if the oven is too hot, the dough can form large bubbles. The handicraft is lost. If you have previously colored the salt dough with food coloring, you must not set the temperature of the oven higher than 120 degrees, otherwise the color of the dough will fade.
5. Before you paint the salt dough with your children after baking, it should cool down well so that there are no burns.

Baking and drying salt dough must be handled very carefully. With thicker salt dough models and if the drying time is too short, there is always the risk of the dough cracking or bubbles appearing.