Making Salt Dough ~ I DID IT!!

**Tam's Tribe** · 16-11-2009, 08:16 PM

Guess What? . . . we made salt dough, baked in Micro and painted!!!!! . . . my boys kept saying "This is so much fun!"

A big thanks to Nicole for all your help and guidance.

Attached pics!!

**Tam's Tribe** · 16-11-2009, 08:21 PM

and painted (excuse the blurry photo) . ..

**fionamal** · 16-11-2009, 08:29 PM

They look fab.

Must try to make them in the next couple of weeks

**Blackhorse** · 16-11-2009, 09:05 PM

really well done!!
they look very nice!

**sarah707** · 16-11-2009, 09:06 PM

Wow well done you!

Mine always goes a bit strange

**babs** · 16-11-2009, 09:10 PM

they look great i really must get round to trying this today i decorated jars for playgroup xmas fair on sat .... didnt have mindees so did some myself but mindees doin thiers tomorrow older already done one at play group just younger one i couldnt watch them both at playgroup to do one so 12 month old havin a go tomorrow but i have a plastic jar for her....

**mummyroysof3** · 17-11-2009, 02:05 PM

they look really good, what sort of paint do you use on salt dough?

charlotte x

**Gizmo** · 17-11-2009, 02:13 PM

they are great havent got round to doing them yet

**Blackhorse** · 17-11-2009, 02:14 PM

Originally Posted by mummyroysof3

they look really good, what sort of paint do you use on salt dough?

charlotte x

I used ordinary paints before and it worked but I prefer acrylic paints on the salt dough...
special pieces also get 2 coats of clear wood varnish to make them last and they look very pretty that way too!

**ORKSIE** · 17-11-2009, 02:56 PM

They look great

**babs** · 19-11-2009, 08:21 PM

Originally Posted by babs

they look great i really must get round to trying this today i decorated jars for playgroup xmas fair on sat .... didnt have mindees so did some myself but mindees doin thiers tomorrow older already done one at play group just younger one i couldnt watch them both at playgroup to do one so 12 month old havin a go tomorrow but i have a plastic jar for her....

Attachment 3432 heres a picture of my decorated jars

oh it worked lol ... just empty jars then decorate use to do this every year when my son was at school ... attached pics cus was asked what they looked like..