Salt Dough Ceramics

Make your creations using the salt dough.

Salt dough ceramics. Learning how to make salt dough. No baked salt dough is easy to make because it is air dry clay no baking needed but of course it will take longer time to dry the dough. To make salt dough first preheat your oven to 180 f 80 c. You ll depend on the sun and hot weather.

While my kids think making and playing with this salt dough recipe is all fun and games they re actually learning a whole slew of valuable skills like brushing up on their math how to measure solids and liquids and what happens when you mix certain ingredients just to name a few. Then mix together 2 cups 255 g of flour 1 cup 200 g of salt 3 4 cup 180 ml of water and 2 tablespoons 30 ml of vegetable oil in a bowl. When i was in third grade i was in a small art class and we were using a type of clay called salt dough the teacher told us how to make it. Place the salt dough creations into the oven at 180c.

I know there are people who look for a recipe and want it to be perfect as is. If you are experienced with baking you will understand that you have to add your water slowly. Hair dryer may helps but be careful with the wind pressure that may ruin your model. Perfect and basic salt dough recipe.

The amount of time needed to bake depends on the size and thickness of the salt dough creations. Once it has been dried out and hardened it can be painted to make a homemade toy for kids to play with.