Crafters- What are you making???

[cknmom]

What a co-inkidink!! I just got a newsletter for DGD that comes once a week for children's websites that are safe, fun, interesting , educational. On it this morning was sites with recipes for slime, floam, putty, etc!!

I think we will do that today. We love science and experiments. I love to be able to combine fun and science

Maybe we'll make some salt clay also, haven't done that in a while. Maybe make some ornaments.

Monica

 

[Wildsky]

I just shampoo'd carpets... dunno if I wanna venture into those things or not!

If I had those micro bead thingies I'd sure give a small batch a try!

 

[okiemommy]

Thanks silkiechick!!! hee hee I was going to ask you if any bean bags were harmed during the production of your floam

YAY!!! Floam!! I think that will be one of my DS' Christmas presents this year! Does it smell better than the store bought stuff? That stuff smells terrible

 

[okiemommy]

so much to keep up with!!!

What do you do with it? Use it in like floral arrangements? LOL!!! Sounds like fun but I can't think of a thing to use "floam" for!!!! Like saying it though, lol!!!!

Sorry scrambled!!! I forgot to tell you what it's purpose is!

Maybe we'll make some salt clay also, haven't done that in a while. Maybe make some ornaments.

That reminds me chcknmom, I made some dough ornaments in kindergarten that I still have one of, can anyone post the recipe/instructions on that one?

 

[wegotchickens]

Search the web. There are hundreds of sites with salt dough info. I looked it up the other night myself!

Basic recipe:
2 cups flour
2 cups salt
1 cup hot water

Another one I found:
3 cups flour
1 cup salt
1 1/4 cups water

I think the 1st one will hold up better...

To make them last, you can bake them @ 250 for about 20 minutes. And then you sg\\hould move them onto the rack from the cookie sheet so the bottomw get dry. Check them every 5-10 minutes to make sure they don't get too dark.

 

[okiemommy]

Thanks wegotchickens! I found a bunch of ideas for them! I didn't realize that they were called salt dough ornaments until someone had mentioned them here. LOL I just remember being really little, making them in daycare, being told not to eat them, and of course that means that I had to have a taste, and then them tasting really bad! ^_^

 

[Scrambled Egg]

I tried to make chicken salt dough ornaments last year and never could do any better than what a kindergartner would do! Gave that up...so, yes, show us a picture or two of some that most certanly look better than mine did..I had a chicken cookie cutter too!

 

[Scrambled Egg]

Does anyone have any pics of cute ...AND EASY salt dough ornaments? Or even clay ones? I guess modeling clay in all those pretty colors is what you woulduse. I have about 40 pounds of potter's clay too, wouldn't mind using that for something too..maybe I'll take another pottery class...wish one of ya'll creative people that likes that kind of thing lived near me so we could take those fun classes together!!! No fun by yourself!! I love, love ,love the pottery though!!!

 

[okiemommy]

Sorry, the only one I have is the one I made forever ago and it's packed away

If we get to make some this year, I will post some pics of mine though!

 

[Scrambled Egg]

Awesome!!! Anything that looks better than what I ended up with would be great!! I even rolled the dough stuff out and then when it baked it bubbled up in a place or two on the ornament, nothing about them turned out good, I trashed all of them. The cookie cutters are cute too! A rooster and a hen