Salt Dough Beads

Big Seed is really into his beads so we decided to make our own:

Here is the necklace he made me.

What was important for me was to let him make lots of mistakes,

so he could really learn from this activity.

By this I mean, let him make beads that are too big and too small,

holes that do not work, etc.

Here is the recipe I used:

1 cup of salt

1 1/4 cup of water ( although I did need to add extra)

3 cups of plain flour

( bake at 200 F )

I showed him how to make balls and discs, then I let him get on with it.

He used the end of a big paintbrush to make the holes.

We baked them and when cooled he brushed them with poster paint...

until he had a better idea!

He painted his hand and then rotated the beads in his hand!

Brilliant!

Of course just dunking them in the paint pot is easiest of all!

I wiped his hands in-between colours.

Here is his rainbow collection.

We didn't varnish them.

I made him a salt dough bowl for those he couldn't thread.

He sells them in his toy shop. How can I resist buying those?

Here he is proudly wearing his beads strung with rainbow wool.

Needless to say we all have a necklace.

He turned my art washcloth into a work of art too!

x

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