Day 2 and we are off and running with our advent activities!
Today's activity was to decorate some salt dough shapes. It was a case of 'here's one I did earlier' (for those people who are familiar with Blue Peter!), as we'd already cut and baked the salt dough shapes on another day.
There is a recipe for salt dough here. I've had a few issues with getting the cooking time right, it has to be long n low, but I've had things come out overly soft if they are thick - the cooking time listed here is about right for thin shapes, but you will need to increase time or temp for thicker pieces. I managed to overcook my thin shapes this time, not heeding my own advice, so they bubbled up slightly, but ho hum there you go.
We used some small and medium sized christmas-shaped cutters for our ornaments, remembering to pierce a hole in the top for the hanging attachment (I used a bamboo skewer for this).
Baked it...
... then today, painted and decorated them.
Now we just need the tree!
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