Salt dough!

 Probably one of my least expensive and favorite (though a little messy) activities i've done with this little guy.

The recipe:

3 cups of flour

1 cup of salt

1 cup of water

Large bowl

Cutting board and rolling pin (or hands)

Mix all the ingredients together in the bowl until it is a smoothish dough. Knead until it's a moldable ball of dough. Roll or flatten it out and then just mold or cut it into any shape or size. After that, just bake it in the oven at 300 degrees for about two hours or until rock solid. It comes out just like hardened clay would, just safer for baby and less expensive. :)

We've done quite a few hand and footprints. I always make sure to poke a hole with a straw before baking so that i have a place to hang them from. You can leave them plain like this, add food coloring to the dough before baking, or just paint after they've cooled.

 

 We've already sent out some to family, and i'm loving the idea. We'll definitely be making some holiday ornaments and things like that when the time comes.

Made this for a friends new baby boy. Tedious, but it came out cute. :)