Salt Dough Ref Magnets DIY

Making salt dough ref magnets project is a fun way to spend your time with kids. Get them busy and let them play around with their creative minds. Just set up a little work place making sure that work area, tables and floors are cover to avoid unwanted paint spills.

Here is the end product of our project. I painted the carrot, watermelon and baseball while my daughter painted the rest.

Materials needed to do this:
•    1 cup flour
•    3/4 cup salt
•    6 tbsp water
•    Acrylic paint
•    Brush
•    Magnets

Salt dough ref magnets how to:

1. Mix flour, salt and water.
2. Knead until all are mixed and form a ball of dough. Add more water if needed.
3. Mold the dough into your kids’ favorite shapes. Get them involve at molding their favorite shapes. You can use any tools you have at home to create shape. I used my daughter’s memory blocks, spoons and bread knife in sculpting our shapes. Just be creative.

4. Place a magnet at the bottom and put it in a baking pan. It’s recommended to have baking sheet so it would be easier to remove once it’s dried. Salt dough is a little heavy so you might want to use stronger magnets for big sculptures.

5. Dry it out under the sun or bake for 2 hours at 200F. It might be longer depending on your dough thickness. Check after 1 hour, if still moist continue baking for another hour. I let mine dried under the sun.

6. Let it cool if oven dried before start painting. Check for loosen magnets, apply glue gun if needed.
7. Enjoy and have fun painting with your kids.

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Kids Canvas Painting

Last weekend I went out with friends at painting studio. I would definitely say that I had fun. At first I was skeptical that I'm not going to make it, but when the artist started showing how it’s done, I feel relieved. Canvas painting is so easy that anybody can do it even younger ones, as young as my daughter. So I thought about introducing canvas painting to her since she likes playing around with water color. This is a great activity for kids to encourage them and enhance their artistic skills. We both enjoyed the activity and I was surprised with how it turned out. You can’t tell it was painted by a 2 year old kid.

Canvas Painting for Fathers Day

Materials you need:

• Canvas
• Acrylic paint
• Brush
• Paint Tray Palette
• Masking tape
• Water

Kids Canvas painting

1. Apply a thin white paint on canvass and let it dry.
2. While waiting to dry, prepare your tape. I wanted to use smaller width but I only have 1 inch tape so I cut them to get 1/4 inch width by laying it into flat surface and cut it using ruler and sharp cutter. This is optional, width of the tape depends on your preference.

3. Place the tape on your canvas. There’s no pattern to follow. Make sure that you stick them good to avoid paints getting underneath.

4. Pour a small amount of paint in a tray palette. I only bought 5 colors but I managed to produce more colors by combining them using the blending ratio I found in food color box.

 

5. Let the kid play around with colors. Paint the canvas until all covered.

6. Let it dry overnight.

7. Peel off the tape and hang on the wall.

My Toddler Masterpiece

As you see, some paint got underneath the tape. Too much paint was probably applied and maybe watered down too since my daughter was dipping the brush to the water too often. I’m tempted to retouch it but I won’t since it’s her first canvass paint done.

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Salt Dough Personalized Foot and Hand Prints

If you’re looking for a father’s day gift idea, you might want to try DIY personalized foot and hand prints. This is amazing project you would love to do with your little ones. Time is passing by so fast and they get bigger each day and having this personalized foot prints hanging on your wall would be a great project you would love to keep for a long time.

This was not my original idea, I’ve seen this circulating on internet and gave a try with a little changes on the materials mixture ratio. I made foot prints when my daughter was few months old and hand prints when she was almost 2. The result was great.  Both were father’s day gift.

Salt Dough Foot Prints Plaque

 

Materials you will need:

• 1 cup flour
• 3/4 cup salt
• 6 tbsp water
• Acrylic paint
• Sponge Brush

Salt Dough Personalized Foot and Hand Prints-How to:

1.    Mix flour, salt and water.
2.    Knead until all are mixed and form a ball of dough. Add more water if needed.
3.    Place the dough ball in a shallow bowl or any shape mold you want to use.
4.    Flatten it according to your desired thickness.
5.    Transfer it to the baking pan. It’s recommended to have baking sheet so it would be easier to remove once it’s dried.
6.    Gently pressed down your babies’ feet and hands to leave prints. If you want to hang yours, add holes before baking.
7.    Bake for 4 hours at 150F. It might be longer depending on your dough thickness. Check after 3 hours, if still moist continue baking for another hour.
8.    Let it cool and paint the color you want.

Salt Dough Personalized Foot and Hand Prints

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