Salt Dough Recipe: Crafts Easy For Kids (2024)

Our simple homeschool salt dough recipe is perfect for young children to make all sorts of fun objects from play fruit to key rings.

You'll find:

• A list of simple homeschool recipe ingredients
  
• Handy tips
  
• Activities and ideas for fun things to make with salt dough
  
• Lots more easy kids crafts to try from marbling to wind streamers
  

We've used our tried and tested homeschooling dough recipe for years and it's never failed yet!

Our homeschooling recipe is really easy.

What's more, you'll find loads of things here even very young kids can make that you can actually use in the house - like fridge magnets, napkin rings and coil pots for putting things in.

That makes salt dough even more exciting!

Homeschool Salt Dough

All you need is:

1. 300g (10 oz.) plain flour
   
2. 300g (10 oz.) salt
   
3. 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
   
4. 200 ml water to mix into the salt dough recipe
   

Instructions:

• Mix the flour, salt and oil together and add the water until you get a soft dough.
• Add food coloring gels if you have them.
  
• Add more water to our homeschooling recipe if you need to.
• Sprinkle some flour on a table where you're going to work, turn the salt dough out and knead it until it's smooth and stretchy.

That's it! You're ready to have fun with our homeschooling easy kids crafts.

Onceyou've finished making your crafts with the dough, you'll need to putthem on some wax paper (called greaseproof paper in the UK) on a baking sheet in the oven.

Bake in the oven at 180°C/350°F/Gas Mark 4 for 20 minutes.

If you haven't used food colouring gels, you can get your children to paint their creations with poster or acrylic paint.

I never bother varnishing them; I think salt dough is best used to have fun on a rainy day.

By the time the mold appears, our crafts have usually met a timely end in the homeschool trashcan (shhh!)

Salt Dough Tips

Jeni and her family from my Courageous Homeschooling Facebook support group have some great tips.

Jeni uses food coloring gels (see list of ingredients) to make her salt dough look great.

She suggests that if you want to make something long-lasting - she suggests a yarn bowl - to paint it withslightly watered down pva glue first to seal so it lasts and doesn't absorb moisture over the years. Then you can either add somepaper mache over the top or just paint it with acrylics.

Easy Kids Crafts

Thereare lots of things your kids can make with homeschool salt dough.

Ithink it's nice to have some crafts easy for kids that your children canmake from very young which have some sort of practical use.

Here are some fun homeschooling ideas to show you how to make the most out of our salt dough!

N.B. Tree decoration and key rings will need attaching to a ribbon soremember to make a hole in your decoration with a co*cktail stick foryour ribbon to go through before you bake it in the oven!

Salt Dough Creations

I have borrowed from Jeni's family again to show what fun you can have with salt dough.

Adding feathers and creating inventive bird nests is just one way to make this a really fun craft; I love the little birds and the use of pipe cleaners to make a basket handle.

Christmas Tree Decorations

Use Christmas cookie cutters in the shape of trees and stars to make your dough decorations. Actually, just about any object your child makes would hang nicely from a tree.

Birds, fish, bells...they all work perfectly made with our homeschoolsalt dough.

We'vegot lots more homeschooling ideas for the festive season, includingdecorated pinecones and snowflakes, on our page on easy Christmas ideas for kids.

Napkin rings

One of the crafts easy for kids is making circles out of the salt dough.

You can turn those circles into jewelry as homeschool bangles but they also make good napkin rings.

Modeling

You can make models out of salt dough.

You'll see my daughter Catherine has made a cat using our homeschool Play Dough Recipe.It's just as easy to make as salt dough and uses very similaringredients.

You can even make it smell nice by adding peppermint orvanilla.

Fun paper mache projects

Homeschool key rings

Anothervery easy kid's craft is to use our homeschooling salt dough recipe tomake key rings.

Dough Coil Pots

Lotsof bangles laid one on top of the other make easy kids crafts as a coilpot. Your children could use the pots for their treasures, jewelry orhow about a bowl of homeschool play fruit?

Play food

How about pretend strawberries for lunch?

Easy crafts for kids workwell if they are combined with fantasy food.

You can make play cakes,homeschool cookies and treats along with play fruit and even a play meal!

As you'll see in our homeschool activities for 2 year olds, it's nice to be a toddler cook alongside Mom using our salt dough recipe.

Homeschool fridge magnets

You'lljust need to buy some small magnets (or re-cycle some) and glue ananimal your kids have made onto it.

Fish shapes work well for easy kidscrafts.

By now you should have plenty of ideas for how to make the best use of our homeschooling salt dough recipe!

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