Tag: how to use salt dough

Altered Photo Frame, Bookmarks, CRAFT Recipes, D I Y, Gift Ideas, GIFT WRAPPING, Recyling, Reuse, Reduce., School projects, Trash to Treasure

12 Ways with Salt Dough !

naush

Hi Friends !!

As the year is coming to a close, I pray, mother nature does not give us all any more, unexpected unpleasant surprises !!

My post today is about the many ways to use Salt Dough.  Salt dough and I go a long way back. When Buddy was 3, nearly 11 years back, I came across a recipe for salt-dough and got hooked to it !!    I find salt-dough as the easiest and most economic way of teaching children and adults to sculpt.  There are several recipes for salt dough if you google it but I prefer to keep the ingredients to the bare minimum.

For my, every 4-Week- workshop, that I conduct, I always keep atleast half a class for salt dough molding and sculpturing. Salt dough can be easily mixed and very easily made.  You can coat a layer of modge podge and then paint it with acrylic paints. If you want it to last longer, and don’t want the paint to fade, I suggest giving it one more coat of modge podge.

Today, I am sharing with you a dozen ways in which you can use Salt Dough.

picFotor121590352

Salt Dough designs can be shaped either by cookie cutters or freely by modeling and sculpturing the dough.

picdscf2036

Oven baked salt dough designs come out, looking like this :-

pice4

1:  Bookmarks :-  A simple design can be hot glued to a tongue depressor and used as a bookmark !!! Doesn’t get easier than that !!

picDSCF2058

2 :  Fridge Magnets

picFotor121580813

3:  Ear rings :- A pair in the same shape with a tiny hole on one of the edges ~ attach a ear ring loop and you have a pair of inexpensive earing to go with every dress you own !!!

picFotor121574439

 4:  Pendant The same can be done for a pendant as well.

picDSCF2082

5:  Hair clip :- Adding a hair clip to the base of a flower or heart shaped flat surfaced salt dough = hair clip. Ofcourse you can embellish your hair clip with pearls, glitter, beads etc.

picFotor121572614

6:  Christmas tree ornament :-  Come Christmas and most households encourage their kids making their own ornaments for the tree.

picDSCF2070

7:  Fancy Gift tags:- If you want to make a dramatic statement on the precious gifts you give away ~ why not top up the wrapping with a salt dough tag ??!

picDSCF2072

8:   Figurines for art and craft OR DIY toys. Keep a small blob for every child in birthday party and see them make silly and creative critters from it !

picdscf2053

9:   Plant markers

picDSCF2073

10:   Key Chain :- What a lovely mothers day or fathers day or teachers day gift !!

picFotor121573518

 11:  Broach :- the same can be made in the above manner but with a round pin clip.

picFotor121572614

12  Embellishments for :-

  • decorating photoframes,
  • mixed media projects,
  • to dress naprings
  • even table cloth weights !!

picDSCF2049

I have shared more than 15 uses of salt dough but ofcourse there are many more ways to use it.  I hope you found some inspiration and would like to give it a try.

I am joining the following parties and sharing these ideas with them :-

I’m so glad, you’re visiting me today. I always appreciate feedback ~ I treat it as an opportunity to visit your blog too. Please feel free to subscribe to my posts on the left side bar or join me on bloglovin :
Follow on Bloglovin

Plenty of regards
329847D06DC776810690945E262E8BDA