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Salt dough is a medium that inspires creativity for young and old alike. Use salt dough and food coloring to make a colorful pendant. Use it as a thrifty stocking filler, or wear it with your favorite T-shirt and make your friends go green with envy when they see your creative accessory.
Total Time: 3 hours, including baking and cooling time
Yield: three pendants
Supplies:
- ½ cup of cake flour
- ¼ cup of cold water
- 2 Tbsp of salt
- red, blue, green, and yellow food coloring
- brown wax cord
- quick-drying clear matte spray varnish
- drinking straw
- mixing bowl
- rolling pin
- flower cookie cutter, approximately 2.2" in diameter
- old baking tray
- silicone baking sheet
Steps:
- Mix the flour, water, and salt together in a bowl. Tip: The dough should not have a sticky consistency. If it sticks to the cookie cutter add a little more flour and mix thoroughly again.
- Place the dough on a flat surface. Tip: To protect the food coloring from staining the surface, place a plastic bag under the dough.
- Add a drop of each color of the food coloring to a ¼ of the dough.
- Knead the dough so that the colors will mix.
- Place the silicone baking sheet on the baking tray. Roll the dough out directly on the baking sheet to a thickness of 0.15" and cut out the flower with the cookie cutter.
- Remove excess dough and use the straw to make a hole in one of the flower petals.
- Bake at 150º Celsius (300º Fahrenheit) for one hour.
- Allow to cool thoroughly, and then spray the front of the flower with the varnish. Allow to dry before turning it over and spraying the back. Remember to work in a well-ventilated area when using the varnish.
- Fold the wax cord in half to make a loop and push the loop from the bottom upwards through the hole in the flower. Push the two ends of the cord through the loop and pull it tight, so that the cord will fit snugly to the top of the flower.
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