Salt Dough Decorations

[alid5]

What fun I had yesterday making salt dough, has been years since I made it with the kids, lots of cutters and hey presto loads of new decorations for the tree, all I have to do now is get them painted and varnished and theyl last for years.

[venator]

You're bringing back my childhood!
Must get the grandchildren at it.

Thanks!

[alid5]

Its so much fun, I had such a blast Im going to be making more today going to make letters thinking I would spell out my niece's and nephew's names and give them for Christmas inside there present so they can hang them in their rooms

[alid5]

Marytreelouse do you mean weevils? I store all my baking ingredients in plastic containers so hopefully that helps.

[alid5]

Never heard of dough mites, tried googling it too but nothing!!!

[venator]

If you bake the dough at 100 degrees instead of letting it dry naturally, the mites shouldn't be a problem.

[alid5]

Thanks venator, glad I baked mine then :)

[karenmac60]

You can microwave it too - I used to have a microwave doughcraft book and one year when I was skint I made clocks as Xmas presents. All I had to buy were cheap clock mechanisms. They worked out really well and everyone loved them too.