Salt Dough Thankful Leaves
These are lovely to make together after talking about everything you feel grateful for and would work particularly well for those celebrating Thanksgiving too!
Instructions
Idea:
Make leaves from salt dough and write what you are thankful for onto each one. Then use them to decorate a gratitude tree as a family!
Find:
- 1 cup plain (all purpose) flour
- 1 cup salt
- 1/2 cup warm water
- gel food colouring or paint
- permanent marker pen
- twine or ribbon
- tree branch
Make & Do:
- Mix the dry ingredients together then slowly add the warm water.
- Mix well and then knead it on a lightly floured surface until it's soft and non-sticky. As with any dough, you can adjust slight problems by adding a little more flour if it's too sticky and a little more water if too crumbly.
- Roll the dough until it's about 1-2 cm thick then use leaf shaped cookie cutters to cut small leaves.
- Put these straight onto a baking sheet and then use a straw to make a hole in each one, ready for stringing a ribbon through later.
- Dry in the oven on a very low heat, approximately 100 degrees C (around 210 F) for 2-3 hours.
- Once ready, talk about what you are thankful and write a word onto each leaf.
- Then thread some twine or ribbon through each hole, tie in a loop and hang them from a branch to make a tree of thankfulness!
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