Salt Dough Recipe & Heart Craft Tutorial

If you’re like me, you’re already pondering of enjoyable Valentine Crafts to do with the kids. We like to offer a particular Valentine vs. the normal paper card that normally will get thrown away fairly shortly. These Salt Dough Conversation Hearts are a enjoyable craft to make and a enjoyable Valentine to offer! Attach them to a key chain, a guide mark, or a deal with bag for a category Valentine’s Day Party, for the kids to take to high school, or to offer to somebody particular. First, I’ll share a salt dough recipe that works nice each time. Then I’ll share how one can flip your salt dough into an cute dialog coronary heart craft. Salt dough Valentines are nice keepsakes too! You will discover a printable salt dough recipe card on the backside of this publish.

Easy Salt Dough Decoration Recipe

What is salt dough? Well, salt dough is an easy and versatile modeling materials that may be simply made at house utilizing widespread kitchen substances. Salt dough is usually used for creating ornamental objects, ornaments, and crafts. Manipulating this clay like substance is nice for developing motor skills. It is very similar to play dough, solely the salt acts as a preservative. So if you bake it, you get a pleasant arduous materials that lasts. Perfect for souvenir crafts! (Be conscious that salt dough creations aren’t waterproof, so keep away from exposing them to moisture.) Here is a simple salt dough recipe.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup of salt (the granulated white salt seen in most desk salt shakers)
• 3/4 to 1 cup water (heat water)

How To Make Salt Dough

1. Mixing:
   • In a big mixing bowl, mix the plain flour and salt to create a dry substances combination.
   • Gradually add water whereas stirring the combination. Start with 3/4 cup of water and add extra if wanted till you obtain a easy and pliable dough.
2. Kneading:
   • Transfer the dough onto a floured floor and knead it for about 5-10 minutes till it turns into elastic and easy.
3. Rolling:
   • Roll out the dough to your required thickness. You can do that between two sheets of parchment paper to stop sticking. Keep in thoughts that thinner dough could dry quicker. I like my salt dough to be about 1/4 inch thick.
4. Cutting and Shaping:
   • Use cookie cutters to make salt dough ornaments or form the dough by hand to create your required types.
5. Baking:
   • Place the formed dough on a baking sheet and bake in a preheated oven at 200°F (93°C) for 2-3 hours. The low oven temperature helps stop the dough from puffing up.
6. Cooling:
   • Allow the creations to chill fully. Once cooled, you possibly can paint or enhance them as desired utilizing acrylic paints, markers, or different crafting supplies.
7. Sealing (Optional):
   • To protect your salt dough creations, you might select to use a transparent sealant or varnish after portray and adorning.

Printable recipe card at backside of publish. Salt dough is a enjoyable and inexpensive strategy to have interaction in numerous artistic initiatives, particularly for seasonal decorations and personalised presents. This recipe can be utilized to make salt dough ornaments of any variety. But, now we’ll proceed with a tutorial particularly for making salt dough hearts. This coronary heart craft is ideal for valentines day as a result of they’re like bigger variations of sweet dialog hearts.

Valentine Salt Dough Conversation Heart Crafts

Heart crafts are excellent for Valentine’s Day as a result of they’re a enjoyable and inventive strategy to categorical love and appreciation. They might be customized with distinctive designs, colours, and messages, making them extra significant than store-bought presents. Plus, they’re nice for all ages, from kids making handmade playing cards to adults creating heartfelt decorations. Crafting collectively additionally brings family members nearer, making Valentine’s Day much more particular!

How do you make salt dough decorations for Valentine’s Day? This cute and straightforward salt dough craft will reply that query with step-by-step directions for cute salt dough dialog hearts that can be utilized as ornaments, paper weights, or key chains.

Craft Supplies:

• unbaked, ready salt dough rolled to 1/4 of inch (see recipe above)
• non-toxic acrylic paint (numerous craft paint colours comparable to pink, purple, and white)
• paint brush
• paint pens (gold and/or silver)
• Mod Podge sealer should you select
• parchment paper
• coronary heart form cookie cutter
• wood skewer or chopstick for carving letters

How To Make Salt Dough Heart Crafts:

Roll the salt dough out on a bit of parchment paper to roughly 1/4″ thick.

The subsequent step is to make use of a heart-shaped cookie cutter to chop hearts from the salt dough.

Use a device to carve letters into the center salt dough shapes – phrases you’d usually discover on dialog coronary heart candies.

Punch a gap within the nook of every coronary heart (with the tip of a chop stick), should you plan to tie them to a present as a present tag, dangle them on a string as a necklace, or use them as ornaments.

Place the center formed salt dough decorations within the oven to bake at 200 levels F. Bake them for two hours, flip and bake for a further hour. Use a timer, you don’t wish to overlook them! They be agency to the touch if you take away them.

Remove salt dough ornaments from the oven and let cool fully. You could even wish to wait until the subsequent day to ensure they’re fully cool and dry.

When shapes are completely dry, paint them in a number of completely different colours. Apply 2 coats of non-toxic paint and let the hearts dry fully.

Use a tremendous tip paint pen to hint the letters that had been carved within the dough.

Let the salt dough dialog hearts dry totally.

At this level, you possibly can coat them with a mod podge sealant if you would like them to be shinier and last more. Otherwise, they’re tremendous identical to they’re. Give these dialog coronary heart crafts as is, or add a size of skinny ribbon or twine by the opening. The salt dough hearts can then be used as reward tags or ornaments.

Printable Salt Dough Recipe Card