Salt Dough Hand Prints!

I first saw salt dough when one of my students made his visual project out of salt dough. It was a visual representation of a battle field-it was huge and heavy, but as solid as a rock. Since then I haven't really thought about it. That is until Pinterest brought it back up again!

I 'repinned' this idea from Parenterest for salt dough crafts. The recipe is 1 cup salt, 1 cup flour, and half a cup of water. I halved the recipe because my kiddos are babies and we really didn't need that much to make hand prints. So we did half a cup of salt and flour and about a fourth a cup of water. I think I added a bit more water because the dough just seemed so dry. Now that the hand prints are already done I think next time we will add less water. It took them forever to dry!!

These hand prints are going to my MIL as a late birthday present. I plan on making hand and foot prints of both the girls for our home. I want to make some every year until they get so big that they think it is obnoxious-luckily, I think that time is far far away!

Obviously their hand prints are not a true representation of their hands so we will have to work on that, but I still think it is cute!