This is a relly low craft ability project! Works for Easter, Valentines Day and just for fun. You can just mold something too, but keep it fairly thin. Otherwise it takes forever to bake.
Ingredients:
- 4 c flour
- 1 c salt
- 1/2 c water
Useful tools, etc.:
- ornament hangers, paperclips or ribbon
- Ungreased cookie sheet
- garlic press – makes hair or fur
- Other miscellaneous kitchen tools
- toothpicks
- straws
- cookie cutters
- icing bag and tips (or cut the corner out of a ziploc bag and insert a tip)
- bowl of water
- Spray acrylic
- Some patients and an imagination….
Directions.
- Preheat oven to 275°
- Mix flour and salt together in a bowl.
- Gradually add water to mixture. (or mix salt and water and add to flour)
- Stir with wooden spoon till ball forms.
- Place ball of dough on floured board or pastry sheet.
- Knead for 10 minutes, till dough is not tacky any more.
- Roll dough out to a little less than 1/4 inch.
- Dip cutters into flour before cutting.
- Before baking use toothpick or straw to make hole in the top for ribbon or hangers.
- For colored dough add a little food coloring to some of the dough or just use acrylic paint after you have baked them and let them cool.
- Brush lightly with Water to attach dough decorations. Don’t use too much water because the dough pieces will not adhere to each other.
- Decorate as you wish.
- Bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes at 275°
- You can use acrylic paints and varnish for the sheen…Use your imagination
Source: www.justapinch.com and years of attempted creativity.
