If haven't yet filled up every spare bit of space on your Christmas tree, you may want to help your children to make some salt dough decorations! Here's how:
Materials
You will need: 80ml water, 50g salt,
100g plain flour, 1 tsp cooking oil.
Method
1. Mix
together the salt, flour and cooking oil in a bowl. Add the water a little at a
time and mix to a smooth paste that leaves the side of the bowl clean.
2. Place
the dough onto a lightly floured board. Use a floured rolling pin to roll out
the dough to about 0.5cm thick.
3. Use
festive shape cutters to cut out several shapes from the salt dough. Use a
straw to make a hole near the top of each shape to thread the ribbon through.
4. Place
them onto a greaseproof baking tray and bake in a preheated oven at 120 degrees
C (Gass Mark 1) until they are firm (about 2 hours).
5. Remove
the decorations from the oven and leave to cool. Paint and decorate with
sequins and glitter glue, then lightly varnish or spray with acrylic lacquer if
you want them to last until next year.
6. When
dry thread ribbon through the holes and hang on the tree. Instead of buying
ribbon, you could save bits of ribbon you cut out of you clothes (the ones that
keep the item on the hanger in the shop).
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