This recipe is much like Play-Doh®, but can be baked to a permanent finish.

Salt Dough

all-purpose flour

salt

water

Mix flour and salt together in a bowl. Slowly mix water, a few tablespoons at a time, into flour mixture until dough is smooth and easy to handle. Knead dough for 10 minutes and let rest for 20 minutes.


Preheat oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C).


Form dough into desired shapes and arrange on a baking sheet.


Bake in the preheated oven until dry and hard, about 2 hours. Allow to cool completely.


Perfect and basic salt dough recipe. I know there are people who look for a recipe and want it to be perfect as is. If you are experienced with baking, you will understand that you have to add your water slowly. Your climate affects how much water goes in to dough. For example, I needed to add a bit extra, but I don’t fault the recipe. Also, as for it burning when you bake it, maybe your oven runs hotter or maybe you rolled your dough thinner than the OP, although it seems like it would be difficult to burn anything at 250 degrees. It’s always best to check a few minutes early.
Just saying, this is your basic salt dough and it is a perfectly fine recipe. Thank you OP

This turned out fantastic. I have no clue why this doesn’t have 5 stars (unless some fool leaves a poor review because they let their dog eat a SALT ornament). Honestly though, if you’re an adult that doesn’t need someone to help you wipe after the toilet, you’ll love the simplicity of this dough. Very malleable. I made some Christmas ornaments and then a hecken Shenmue sculpture.

I am not good at making these - 2 tries, 2 fails but my co worker uses this recipe so its likely my fault.  

PLEASE NOTE: toxic for dogs!  I feel it is WELL worth noting somewhere in the recipe that although this is great project for families, etc - these cookies are SUPER toxic to dogs!!  After leaving my failures on the counter in a hurry I came home to a dog who was drinking excessively & getting sick.  After googling "dog poisoning and salt dough" I had NUMEROUS results of families who were not as lucky as I and the treatment can be somewhat extreme if the dog is small and ingested a lot of salt.  I was fortunate my dog is not small, had access to plenty of water and rid her stomach of most of it's contents or it could have been very bad.  

Please consider adding this warning to the recipe - I don't want to deter anyone from making them - just feel they should know to keep away from dog's reach - even when hung on the tree.  Thank you!

I will make this again! Fun easy project with the grandkids. Came out nice and white so when painted they were nice and bright.

Made it was In oven not even 20 min and it burnt and cant even use for tree decorations

As a substitute teacher, I used this recipe with a group of 5th graders.  Teacher left instructions (and apologies in case more was needed!); could not have been any easier.  Kids got to work on their projects and had a good time constructing with the dough.  We didn't bake it, instead we let everything air dry.  If I were to try to dry it out more quickly, I would probably put it in a warm oven after the oven was turned off!  Good luck!

Great fun! Made hand print ornaments with my 1.5 year old for Christmas gifts! We had a lot of fun! This is a keeper.

A little to hard for my 7 year old, kept rolling to thin. Also hard to pick it up without destroying the shape. Thankfully it was only egg shape for Easter.

I made Easter ornaments out of this and they turned out great!

salt dough

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 2 hours

Total: 3 hours, 10 minutes

Servings: 4

Author : IRISHEYE101

Ingredients

Instructions

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