This pure white salt dough is a delightful alternative to standard salt dough. It is lovely to work with and brilliant if you don’t want your dough to have a yellow tint and do not fancy painting it.
We usually make salt dough ornaments at this time of the year, but spurred on my Chris at Thinly Spread I decided to give cornflour dough a try. However, typically I didn’t have the ingredients on hand to make her recipes so made up my own.
How to Make Bright White Salt Dough
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Ingredients
- 2 cups salt
- two-thirds of a cup of water
- 2 cups cornflour
- Half cup water
Method
Mix 2 cups of salt with two-thirds of a cup of water in a pan and stir constantly over medium heat for 2-3 minutes until bubbles appear.
Remove from heat and immediately add to 2 cups cornflour and half a cold water and mix quickly to form a stiff dough and kneed.
Roll out and cut out your shapes, use a straw to push out a hole to thread the ribbon through and then cook for 3 to 4 hours at 150 degrees
As you can see the kids have had a blast decorating the ornaments with glitter glue, more glitter aad some more sparkly gems!
The thing is kids love everything to sparkle and that more is more. What is not to love?
Your Comments
Oh they look fantastic Jen! Looks like you had a lot of fun too!
Wow they look so beautiful and such fun to make…I love this time of year…just off to have a rummage in my store cupboard…..
Carole
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They look fab mrs…thanku for sharing the recipe X
What a nice idea.
Pretty cool!
I think I’ll have to let the Turtle have a go with the glitter on our salt dough ones. Bling is what our tree needs.
I love them, I love that they are white instead of the beige so will be trying it. Thanks 🙂 Jen
@Jen: They are great, I too love that they are pleasingly white!
Your Comments
They are fabulous … I have made something similar on my site. You have some budding potters there I think – real clay next year?
These look brilliant! My son would love to make some like this.
Thanks Jen, I think I’m going to be making these. x
They are fab, thanks for sharing the recipe…we will have a go too:)
found your site on del.icio.us today and really liked it.. i bookmarked it and will be back to check it out some more later
Oh wow, I hadn’t seen these yet. They turned out SO WELL! I really am impressed. STILL have NOT given saldough (or cornflour dough) a go with Red Ted yet… will endeavour to do so, soon!
Thank you for linking up to Kids Get Crafty, Jen, much appreciated!!!
Maggy
We’re making them tomorrow and decorating on Tuesday. BIG fun. My daughter cannot wait (neither can I). Thanks for sharing.
They look awesome! I hope you post a photo of them hanging on your tree. I would love for you to stop by Wiccan Make Some Too’s Wickedly Crafty Saturdays & share this!
http://wiccanmakesometoo.blogspot.com/2010/12/wickedly-crafty-saturdays-5.html
Seeing as we’re snowed in me and Oli are going to have a go at making these!! Thank you for sharing this with us!! 🙂
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