#ArtAtHome Workshop: Salt Dough

Social distancing restrictions have upended routines, schedules and summer plans. For some, that’s meant pivoting to remote work. For others, that’s meant going back to the drawing board in search of inspiration. 

From supplies to finished product, the stages of this workshop.

As your days continue to change, find consistency and inspiration through our virtual #artathome arts-and-crafts workshops, where our team guides you through a fun craft without even leaving the house. 

We started the virtual workshops in this unusual time as a way to connect with our community and continue art education and fulfillment. The challenge when we started was in sourcing supplies and who would become our audience; as a result, we decided to create crafts that can be sourced from nature or supermarkets. Not knowing who would be our audience, we decided to focus on crafts to be proud of, that the creator would want to keep and share, keeping age out of the equation as long as everyone is responsible.

Get Started With This Virtual Workshop

Supply List

1. Warm water  

2. Salt

3. Flour

4. Wax paper

5. Rolling Pin

6. Foraged bits of nature

7. Cookie Cutters

8. Textured fabric like lace

9. Stamps

10. Knife

11. Chopstick (for ornament holes)

12. Drinking Glass (for coaster shape)

Optional:

1. Paint

2. Food Coloring

Directions

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1. Mix dough by combining ½ cup of warm water, ½ cup of flour, and ½ cup of salt. Keep adding flour until the dough is no longer sticky. Optional: separate your dough into sections and add food coloring to create dyed dough. 

2. Roll dough onto wax paper until your dough is about 6/8ths of an inch. Tip: allow flattened dough to sit for 20 minutes before moving on to Step 3.

3. Cut dough using your choice of tools from the supply list. You can press stamps, textured fabric, and bits of nature into the dough to create patterns. You can also make holes using the chopstick to create ornaments. 

4. Layout dough on a cookie sheet and bake in oven at 250 degrees for two hours. You can use a toaster oven at the same temp. and time.

5. Paint dough after allowing dough to cool completely (best if it can cure overnight). Tip: use acrylic paint, house paints, or nail polish. Note, this step is optional!

For a full list of crafts to try at home, click here. We can’t wait to see what you create! Tag us on Instagram, @7textures. To get in touch about additional virtual workshops, or just to say hi, email us.