Kids love to play with all types of dough. Use this easy salt dough recipe below to make these fun and colorful salt dough beads! This hands-on craft activity uses simple and inexpensive supplies and is great for kids of all ages. Thread your beads together to make unique salt dough jewelry!
Easy Salt Dough Beads
The art of salt dough making is ancient, dating back to Egyptian times. In Europe, mainly Germany, this craft became very popular. The art was used widely in home decoration, especially at festive times, like today.
To make salt dough, flour and water is mixed with salt as a preservative and then the dough can be worked with kind of like clay. The dough is baked at a low temperature for long enough to remove all the moisture and harden the finished product.
Some people use salt dough to make elaborate sculptures and creations, but most use it for children’s crafts. The dough is easy to make, easy to work with, non-toxic, and can be made from things most people already have at home.
Make your salt dough using our easy printable salt dough recipe below and then mold it into beads. Let’s get started! You could also make beads with homemade air dry clay.
How to Make Salt Dough Beads
SUPPLIES:
- 1/3 cup flour
- 1/3 cup salt
- 3 tablespoons water
- Acrylic paint
- Straw
- Wax paper
INSTRUCTIONS
STEP 1: Mix flour, salt, and warm water into a soft dough.
STEP 2: Shape the dough to form the beads.
STEP 3: Use your straw to make holes in each bead.
STEP 4: Cook the beads for 10 min in a 200 degree oven on wax paper.
STEP 5: When the beads have cooled, paint them with acrylic paint and thread with string.
More Things to Make with Flour and Salt Clay
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