Our Favorite Salt Dough Crafts for Kids

Salt dough is easy to make and requires ingredients you most likely have at home. Kids love to knead the dough and even little ones can contribute. Once you’ve whipped up a batch, here are our favorite fun items your kids can create. You can use cookie cutters to create shapes or even freehand them. Once you have your cutouts, use for other projects including holiday wreaths, garlands, magnets, and more. Just use your imagination!

SALT DOUGH RECIPE

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup salt
• 1 cup water

1. Mix flour and salt together in a bowl. Slowly mix water, a few tablespoons at a time, into flour mixture until dough is smooth and easy to handle. Knead the dough for 10 minutes and let rest for 20 minutes.
2. Preheat oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C).
3. Form dough into desired shapes and arrange them on a baking sheet.
4. Bake in the preheated oven until dry and hard, about 2 hours. Allow to cool completely.

Marbled Salt Dough Ornaments. Creating a marbled dough means you can fashion fun ornaments or other cutouts. Once you fashion the dough and cut out the shapes, use a straw or toothpick to put a small hole at the top of each. You can use as holiday ornaments or string together to create a fun garland for decorating. To learn how to make the marbled dough, click here.

Melted Crayon Dough Designs. Broken crayons are a fixture of every home with kids. Now you can gather up those crayons and use them for a fun twist on salt dough creating. To learn how to make melted crayon ornaments, click here.

Salt Dough Easter Eggs. You’ll need some paint and twine to make these sweet Easter eggs. Once you have a batch, you can use to decorate an Easter Tree or as little gifts in Easter Baskets. To learn how to make melted crayon ornaments, click here.

Salt Dough Monster Pets. If you happen to have liquid watercolor around the house, these cute little critters are fun to make. You can also use the colored dough for other projects. To learn how to salt dough monster pets, click here.

Salt Dough Monster Pets. If you happen to have liquid watercolor around the house, these cute little critters are fun to make. You can also use the colored dough for other projects. To learn how to make salt dough monster pets, click here.

Salt Dough Fingerprint Flowers. These flowers would make great spring garlands or magnets to hold art on the fridge. To learn how to make salt dough fingerprint flowers, click here.