Decorations Made from Salt Dough - Cheap and Fun DIY's

Many years ago I became a fan of salt dough, and not eating it but using it for making decorations for home and, well, yes I made also earrings out of it (but let’s keep it in secret – if you do it nobody wants to know that’s a salt dough hanging in your ears :D).

Well, I just found the pictures that were forgotten in my computer for quite some time and also wanted to give you another idea to pin for making Christmas decorations in a really, really cheap way. 

Salt dough is a pretty plastic material and also can’t do anything bad for kids working with it. You can work with in like with any other cookie dough, the difference is that you are not going to eat those “cookies” and you can save them for long time, decorate your home with them, paint them and make even kids toys out of them. I remember when I was a child my mom allowed me to play with it making my own miniature toys – so, it’s nothing really new.

Ingredients for the dough:

• ·         Flour
• ·         Salt
• ·         Water

For about a handful of flour I’m taking about 3 tablespoons of salt and mixing with water to make the dough that is more or less the same solidity as modelling clay (or gingerbread dough). Precision in making this dough isn't really necessary, and if accurate ingredient measurements for this recipe exist for getting optimal results, let me know!

A few useful tips:

• Working with salt-dough, remember to keep a bowl of water in a reach to damp your fingers from times to times making working with dough easier.  

• When you’ve made the figures you want, leave it to dry in a warm place (that might take even a week or more depending on how thick your figures are) or put them in an oven to dry fast.

• When your decorations are fully dried you can paint them, glue glitters on them or beautify them any other way. I’ve used also nail polish to paint them – that way they can be used outside as well (of course, not really an option for going to swimming pool, although who goes to swim with earrings?).

That salt-dough earring thing is pretty funny, but you can use the same ornaments for decorating your Christmas tree or gifts.

P.s. click on pictures to enlarge.

P.p.s. Feel free to share your salt-dough projects in comments!