My mum and I went to a community course many many moons ago to make salt dough creations and I remember having great fun. So when I was trying to work out a way to do dinosaur ‘fossil’ imprints I thought – salt dough!
It’s super easy to make and fun to play with. All you need is 300 g flour, 200 ml water and 300 g salt. Mix it all up, roll it out and go for it!
Master D got a slab of the dough and using his mini dinosaur toys made ‘fossil’ imprints. Next we used a dinosaur cookie cutter to make larger t-rex outlines (we tried using it properly but the hands and tail kept breaking).
Since we had extra salt dough I couldn’t resist doing Little Miss Q’s foot and hand print 🙂 And she was a very obliging model. Then we popped our creations in the oven at 180° for around 30 minutes.
The next day we got painting – using pva paint (1 part pva glue and 2 parts poster paint). Here are our results:
We might keep this in mind for Christmas decorations too! And here is one of Master D’s paintings using his mini dinos as paint brushes:
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| After this he painted his arms green to ‘go dino’! |
Thanks for reading, Kelly
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Those are awesome! Last year we did a dinosaur unit where we made fossils too, but I love that you took it a step further & painted them too! I would love for you to link this & other kid-friendly stuff at my TGIF Linky Party on Friday – http://livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com/search/label/Linkey%20Parties~Beth
What a great idea!!! I need to try this soon as we love making things with salt dough.
this is a really cool idea! Will be passing it on to a friend with a dino mad little one!
Ooohh… I know how I’ll be keeping my two year old busy next week when I need a few minutes to get something done- he will LOVE this!
Hi there… I linked to your post in my “learning from others” post today. http://teachinggoodeaters.blogspot.com/2011/11/learning-from-others.htmlI used one of your pictures- please let me know if it’s a problem and I’ll remove it!
How cute & clever. We will have to do these when we study dinosaurs! Oh, I found you at TGIF Linky Party.
Megan
These are so cool! I love the hand and footprints too! Thanks for sharing.Stopped in from the TGIF Linky Party.
So fun! We like to freeze dinos in ice and then excavate them. We also make time machines – such as the one at http://traininghappyhearts.blogspot.com/2010/08/time-machine-to-dinos.html
How fun!! Thank you for sharing it at Crafty Moms Share!
Love this idea and love your blog! I’m your newest stalker 🙂 In fact, I think this is so cool that I’m going to send it to a friend who does children’s art projects at a museum! This would be a big hit!
Fab idea! I love salt dough.
My children would love that. We love dinosaurs and salt dough. x