Fairy Doors - Salt dough

Today we really haven't done a great deal just basic pottering really it's been one of those annoying rain one minute sun the next days that good old Blighty is infamous for on days like this I like to do stuff - one of my favourite blogs has been "make today magical" she has many many cool ideas and this was one of them
Salt dough can be used is many many ways fairy doors pretend food robots numbers you name it I have no doubt a child could craft it out of salt dough!!


Mix together 4 cups of flour, 1 1/2 cups of salt and 2 cups of water. This makes enough for approximately 4 fairy doors, so make less if you don’t want that many. We used our leftover dough for play dough sits in the fridge well


so we kneaded the dough and made fairy doors - we just used cheap "value" flour
we baked in the oven at about 180 for 15 mins - realistically we should have left it a little longer they were still soft ish
we made doors and a "3" for Daniel's birthday and I made a little "thing" and stabbed out happy birthday that blew up a little so I made it into a balloon
with a skewer in the end


we painted with poster paints - these aren't waterproof so just inside models!
overall they all enjoyed playing with the dough both when wet and when I made plate sized discs to paint


these were for later on - sometimes we all need back up activities and these little paint pots come in things like model paint things he enjoyed it and it gave me 10 minutes to tidy up whilst he created his thing - he painted front and back!


I let M use the metallic paints and she glittered hers too!

a great easy to make throw together activity!