Fun DIY Baket Salt Dough 7.1

If you’re a mom, a teacher, or even just a DIY enthusiast, then you probably know a lot about dough. Baking dough for pizza and homemade bread is something you’ll work with often if you like cooking or baking. Play Dough is something you’ve probably got a home recipe for on call if there are kids in your life. Our favourite kind of homemade dough, however, isn’t actually either of these! If you’ve never made salt dough before then you’re in for a whole lot of crafting fun.

Check out these many awesome DIY projects that are easy to make and even come with tutorials for how the salt dough itself is made!

Cookie cutter snow flakes

Working with salt dough is a lot of fun because it starts out malleable, meaning you can mould it into just about anything and cut it into shapes very easily. At the same time, it dries solidly if you leave it sitting out in the open over night,

Salt dough hand prints

One of the best things about working with salt dough is how many different kinds of crafts you can make with it and how many different techniques you can use. If you’re not really into the idea of cutting shapes out,

Salt dough fossils

Have you ever seen fossil rocks and observed how awesome the shape of a prehistoric plant or dinosaur bone looks impressed into the surface of a rock after years of decompression underground?

Salt dough heart necklace

When you work with crafting tools that let you create from the very beginning, do you prefer moulding your own shapes so you can really make the piece custom and the way you want it? Then salt dough is the perfect medium for you!

Salt dough footprints

Did you like the idea of doing a kids’ handprint but you think you might save that for when your kids are a little bit older and can have fun helping you out? Well, you can still have fun documenting them with salt dough when they’re little!

Sparkly salt dough candleholders

We’ve talked a little bit about moulding with salt dough, but did you know that you can actually build things with a little bit more structured, like you would with plasticine or clay? That’s why we loved this candle holder idea