You can make a lot of crafts from salt dough with your children. Unlike plasticine, this material is suitable for kids of any age. Even if the child pulls the dough into his mouth, nothing will happen.
You can start making such crafts at home with your child - all the ingredients are available and inexpensive. It is especially pleasant to make New Year's toys from salt dough. They can be made as much as you want and the way you want. Even the smallest children feel that they have worked together with everyone for the holiday, if the toys they have made hang on the tree.
For the dough, take 2 cups of plain wheat flour, a glass of salt, 250 g of water. Mix everything well. The degree of readiness of the dough is determined during kneading - if it crumbles, add water, if it stretches, sticks to your hands, add flour. Roll a ball out of the dough - if it holds its shape well, you're done. You can add a little vegetable oil - then the finished mass will not stick to your hands.
Herringbone Salted Dough Crafts
To make Christmas tree decorations from salted dough, you can use cookie cutters. Even kids with their help do an excellent job of cutting figures out of rolled dough. These figurines can be dried and left as they are or decorated.
Try taking a cocktail straw and using it to make many small holes in the cut out flat figurine. Openwork products are obtained. You can also decorate with beads, sparkles, you just need to take into account that the toys cannot be dried in the oven, otherwise the jewelry may melt. In addition to beads, shells, cereals, buttons, nuts, coffee grains and so on can be used to decorate products.
There are wonderful lacing toys for the development of fine motor skills in a child. Try making holes along the edges of the salt dough figurine, placing them in a certain order. Dry the product. Invite your child to thread bright ribbons or thick yarn through these holes. You will have a great lacing toy.
Older children can be offered to paint the toy with permanent markers or paste over with pictures using the decoupage technique.
