Craft Doughs
No Cook Salt Dough
When air dried, this will make a flat ornament, but when baked in the oven set on the lowest temperature, the ornaments will puff up and brown just like cookies!
Ingredients Needed:
2 cups flour
1 cup salt
1 cup warm water
Blend flour and salt in a bowl. Gradually add in water and mix until mixture cleans the side of the bowl. If mixture is too dry add more water, if too sticky add more flour. Gather mixture with your hands and shape into a ball. Place ball on a clean, lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and workable.
Variations:
For colored dough: add food coloring to the water before mixing it into the flour/salt mixture. The more food coloring, the brighter the color
For sparkling dough: While kneading the dough, flatten slightly and sprinkle on some glitter. Continue kneading until the glitter is worked through the dough, and dough is smooth.
Marbleized dough: After kneading dough that has been colored w/food coloring, gently knead two colors together to blend the colors. Stop kneading before the colors blend into one color.
3 cups of flour
3/4 cup of salt
3/4 teaspoon powdered alum
1-1/4 cups water
Mix all the ingredients together. The dough will be very stiff. Knead until smooth, adding some flour if dough becomes too sticky. Use as above recipe.
This makes a pure white finished ornament. Great for snowmen!
Ingredients Needed:
1 cup cornstarch
2 cups baking soda
1 1/4 cups water
Combine all ingredients in a medium to large saucepan. Cook over medium low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture is the consistency of mashed potatoes. Remove from heat. When dough is cool enough to handle, knead on a clean, lightly floured surface until smooth and workable.
When dried and varnished, this dough gives the appearance of a brown stone.
Ingredients needed:
1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
1 cup used coffee grounds
1/2 cup cold, left-over coffee
Combine all ingredients in a bowl. Stir until well blended and mixture cleans the side of the bowl. Gather dough into a ball and knead on a lightly floured surface until smooth and workable.
After varnishing, this dough gives the look of a gray granite to the finished ornament.
Ingredients needed:
1 cup flour
1/4 cup salt
1/4 cup water
1/2 cup used tea leaves
Mix all ingredients, blending well, until dough cleans the side of the bowl. Gather dough into a ball and knead on a clean, lightly floured surface until dough is smooth and workable.
Alternative: substitute the tea leaves with an equal amount of dried, crumbled flower petals.
Ornaments made with this dough smell divine! And the scent lasts a very long time.
A word of caution: be EXTREMELY careful when working with the cinnamon, if it gets in your eyes or mouth, it can burn. < P>
Mix equal parts of applesauce and cinnamon (a cup of each makes a nice manageable amount of dough if you are aiming at a lot of ornaments). Knead dough until smooth.
Hints: When kneading, instead of using flour to dust your surface, sprinkle ground cinnamon on it instead, this will keep the dough a lovely brown color. Do this when rolling the dough to cut as well.
Also, there is no need to varnish ornaments made with this dough. Cinnamon is a natural preservative, and the varnish will ruin the aroma.
Ingredients Needed:
4 tablespoons Tacky Glue
4 slices White Bread NO CRUSTS
4 tablespoons Corn Starch
2 tablespoons Cold Cream
2 teaspoons Lemon Juice
2 teaspoons White Acrylic Paint
You can use any color paint you like, but some have more pigment. To get the color you want you will have to experiment with the amount to add. Mix all ingredients together in a container until it begins to stick together. Empty out on a board and knead until smooth. Wrap in saran wrap and store in the fridge. Use as clay. Cut with cookie cutters, sculpt with it, make beads etc… Air dry, DO NOT BAKE. Finished articles can be painted and varnished. Recipe will keep for a long time when stored in the refrigerator.
Ingredients Needed:
3 cups lint from the dryer
2 cups water
2/3 non-self-rising wheat flour
3 drops oil of wintergreen
Old newspaper
Put lint and water in a large saucepan. Stir to dampen all parts of the lint. Add flour and stir together to prevent lumps. Add oil of wintergreen. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture holds together and forms peaks. Pour out onto several thicknesses of newspaper to coll. Use as you would paper mache pulp, shape over armatures, or press into molds. Allow objects to dry for 3-5 days. Finished items will have a hard durable surface. Stored in an airtight container it will keep for several days.
Ingredients Needed:
1 cup sawdust, not too fine, but sifted so that there are no large chunks or splinters
1/2 cup flour
water
Mix sawdust and flour. Add water, stirring, until dough is stiff. If dough is too crumb-like, add more water and flour (don’t add more sawdust). Knead on a wax paper covered table. Mold into shapes. Set in a warm breezy spot for about 48 hours to dry. Sand with fine grit sandpaper.
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