Salt Dough....Let your imagination run free!!!

There was much excitement to get started at today's class. It did take a few moments to explain to the younger members of our class that this wasn't just play-dough, we could keep the things we made and bake it. This did take a while to sink in, as I noticed they would squish up the lovely things they made and begin again, instead of putting it to one side for baking!

Each child was supplied with a board covered in greaseproof paper (taped at the back to keep it in place while they created. They were also given plastic cutting utensils, plastic knives, shape cutters, rolling pin and bamboo skewers. Also I supplied some books for them to look at for ideas.

Some of the ideas the kids came up with were fascinating.

Of course, our younger ones had great fun making play food, long sausage snakes, and cutting shapes to make decorations with.

While our older members created Name plates for their bedroom doors, some mini wreathes and gorgeous decorative pictures.

They learned some new techniques....

......wetting the dough with a bit of water on their fingers so that they could "glue" smaller pieces to larger pieces of dough.....

....making holes in the dough to put string through for hanging and placing balls of dough onto a skewer to keep the holes in while baking.....

We ended up with, slightly sticky hands, some floury clothes (my fault for leaving the bag of flour within easy reach!) and so many gorgeous things made! I took them home to bake slowly in the Aga oven I had temporarily "borrowed" space in.....

Here they are, moved carefully onto baking trays and ready to pop in the oven!

Can't wait to see them all baked and painted by the end of next week's class!