Out of all the play dough recipes we have tried this one has to be a favourite of mine. Unlike most other types of dough this one is great for making and baking your children's creations. We don't use it often enough really but it is great and looks even better when painted and varnished.
The children are now really excited for Christmas and with the family all coming round this year we will be making little gift bags for every one to open from the children. This is one of five item's we have planned.
Recipe:
1 cup of flour
1 cup of salt
1/2 a cup of water
( you could also add food colouring or glitter)
There is nothing difficult about this recipe simply mix the dry ingredients together then slowly add the water until it forms the texture of dough.
The children rolled out the salt dough until it was roughly 1 cm deep. We choose to cut circle's out as we wanted a large space to work with but you could use a Christmas cutter. We then made a hole at the top for the ribbon to thread through with a cutter, you could also use a straw or similar.
The children then used a selection of beads to decorate the ornaments. Little man choose the red and green as they are is current favourite colours and P picked out all the ones which she though were interesting shapes.
Once decorated we stuck them in the oven on 100 degree's for 2 hours turning them over half way through for an even bake. When they cooled down we added some festive ribbon.
The finished decorations looked beautiful and will be varnished and have a special message added to the back before I put them away ready for Christmas.
Links to the Development Matter's:
Mathematics
•Uses positional language.
Understanding of the World
•Talks about why things happen and how things work.
Expressive Arts and Design
•Uses available resources to create props to support role-play.
•Captures experiences and responses with a range of media
•Captures experiences and responses with a range of media
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