Make and decorate salt dough shapes

What you'll need

• A mug

• Mixing bowl

• Wooden spoon

• Plain flour

• Salt

• Water

• Vegetable oil

• Food colouring/food essences

• Glitter

• Poster paint

• Paint brushes

What to do

1. Measure two mugs full of flour and one mug full of salt and put them in your mixing bowl.

2. Fill the mug 3/4 full of water and add this to the mixture.

3. Add a tablespoon of vegetable oil.

4. Stir the mixture with your spoon or with your hands until it forms dough. If your dough is too crumbly, add a bit more water. If it is too sticky, add a bit more flour.

5. Knead the dough to make it smooth and elastic.

6. You can add food colouring, essences or glitter to your dough to make it colourful – try making doughs of different colours.

7. If you keep the dough in a tied polythene bag, it won’t dry out.

8. Now the fun bit – mould the dough with your hands or roll it our flat and cut out shapes using a cookie cutter or make your own models.

9. Leave your dough to dry on a flat surface for about 2 days until they are hard.

10. When they are dry, you can decorate your salt dough shapes using poster paint.