When you were little did you ever bake clay and decorate it?
I stumbled upon this idea a little while ago in one of my craft books and was all over it!
It's easily a 2 day craft, and I am all about 2 part crafts with the boys (now that the need for instant gratification has lessened), so I quickly whipped up a bunch of the clay and set the boys onto it.
I manned them with rolling pins and cookie cutters the first day...
They had a great amount of fun.
Baked Clay
4 cups flour
1 cup salt
1 1/2 cups water
Put the flour and salt into a bowl and pour the water over top. Mix (works best if you do this with your hands) until a clay forms. You may need to add more water, if this is the case do so 1 tbsp at a time until everything comes together.
After your kiddies have shaped their creations bake them on a cookie sheet for 3 hours in an oven set at 200. Allow to cool completely and then paint!
3 comments:
I remember painting baked clay as a child but have never tried this with my kids. I better get bakin some clay though because this looks like sooo much fun! :)
Thanks for linking up to the Mingle With Us Blog Hop! I'm following back and am pretty excited about it! I've been browsing a bit through your blog and you have some AWESOME ideas!
Salt dough! My mom made this for us all the time when I was a kid. We loooved it.
Oh the fun of home made art projects. We love them too.
-Veronica
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