Salt Dough Handprint Keepsakes

These little handprints were very cheap and very easy to make and make great gift ideas for parents or grandparents!

 

Salt Dough Recipe:

 

1 cup salt

1 cup flour

1/2 cup of water

 

 

Mix all ingredients together and knead until smooth. If it's too sticky, add some more flour. If it's too dry and starts to crumble, add a tiny bit of water. It really is very easy!

 

Madison and Jackson love mixing the dough and getting it ready to work with. It does tend to get a little messy, but that's what they love about it! It's a great sensory play experience, as well as measuring and strengthing those little hands.

 

After mixing I divided for the two of them. They each picked out a color. Jackson picked blue and Madison red. So, we added a couple drops of food coloring to each one and they squished it around until it looked the way they wanted. (You could also not do food coloring and paint after baked and cooled.) Madison's was pretty much all blended. Jackson's looked blue tie dyed. We rounded the edges and smoothed the top to make the perfect canvas made for those precious little hands. Then, they each pressed down their hands onto their dough.

 

Bake at 100 degrees for 3 hours.....and voila! Salt Dough Handprint Keepsakes :D

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