Have some creative fun with the kids this Easter with these gorgeous DIY Easter Egg ornaments and Easter Tree. This is something that the whole family can enjoy making together and it will easily kill a few hours over the school holidays.
Salt dough is 100% non toxic so it’s perfect to make with small children. Once you get the hang of making salt dough there are endless things you can create with it. It’s no harm to invest in some cookie cutters as these go hand in hand with salt dough and make for an easy craft on any rainy day.
What you need:
- Flour
- Water
- Table Salt
- Rolling Pin
- Small Plastic Round Tub or oval shape
- Paint
- Paintbrush
- Nail varnish
- Cotton Wool Buds
- Coloured Twine (optional)
- Tree Twigs
- White Spray Paint
Instructions:- Measure out one cup of water, one cup of flour and a half cup of salt. This will make enough to make approx 12 eggs
- Mix the flour and the salt together and slowly add the water until you get a nice dough mixture.
- Using your rolling pin, roll out your dough.
- It’s hard to find an oval cookie shape so I used one of my daughter’s little food bowls and squeezed it so that it made more of an oval egg shape rather than a circle.
- Cut out all of your eggs. I used a straw to make a little hole in the top of each egg that we will use to thread the twine through later.
- Place your eggs on a baking tray and bake in the oven at 100°C for about an hour.
Tutorial from Ali Coghlan at CrafTea Parties
