One more Halloween craft for you. This one is so fun. I love salt dough, don't you?? I decided to make a spooky bat tree with black glittery salt dough and I thought it came how quite nice. Want to make them?
Salt Dough Recipe:
2 cups Flour
1 cup Salt
3/4 to 1 cup water
Other Essentials:
Gold Glitter
Mod Podge (or watered down elmers glue)
Bat Cookie Cutters
fishing line
toothpick
Watered down black paint (or black food coloring)
Paintbrushes
~Mix the salt dough ingredients with the watered down black paint, and if it is too wet/sticky you can add equal amounts of salt and flour to bring it to the right consistency.
~Knead in the glitter:
~Roll it out to whatever thickness you'd like and then use the cookie cutters to make the bats. Put them on a non-stick cookie sheet.
(I used other Halloween shapes as well to further decorate my house)
~Bake it at 250 for several hours until hard.
~Find a nice leafless branch.
~Coat the (cooled down) ornaments with mod podge/watered down glue to preserve them.
~String the fishing line through each salt dough ornament and secure the ends with a knot.
~Loop over the branches and make a Bat Tree!!
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so cute! never would have put glitter in the dough! good idea!
ReplyDeleteVery spooky idea indeed - like a Halloween tree...could put some hooks into candy corn and hang them on the tree too to get the multi-colored effect! I love it - and it looks great on our table!
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