Salt Dough Sea Creatures

In class we made some salt dough sea creatures to decorate the costumes for our Showcase. We thought they might be a good holiday activity, so have included some instructions below. You can make any shape you like!

Salt Dough Sea Creatures

Goal

To make salt dough sea creatures.

Materials

You will need:

·      ½ cup of salt

·      1 cup of flour

·      ¼ cup of water

·      bowl

·      spoon

·      food colouring

·      rolling pin

·      sea creature cutters

·      skewer

·      baking tray

·      baking paper

·      paint

·      paint brushes

·      glitter

·      string

Steps

1.     Wash your hands and put on an apron.

2.    Pour in the salt, flour and water plus four drops of food colouring in to a large bowl and mix.

3.    Squeeze the dough into a ball.

4.    Roll the ball flat with a rolling pin.

5.    Use cookie cutters to cut the shapes out.

6.    Poke a hole in each shape with the skewer.

7.    Place the creatures on a baking tray with baking paper and put in to an oven at 180 degrees for half an hour.

8.    When the shapes have finished cooking let them cool down.

9.    Get a paintbrush and dip it in to the paint.

10.  Do cool patterns on the shape, then sprinkle glitter on top.

11.   Poke the string through the hole and tie it wherever you want.

By Tim