Easter Salt Dough Egg Ornaments
If you’re a procrastinator like me, you’ll be dying eggs today or Friday for Easter Sunday. While the kids are already making a mess, try this easy salt dough recipes to make a cute Easter 2015 reminder and decoration for next year!
Salt Dough Ingredients:
1 cup flour
½ cup salt
½ cup water
Supplies for Ornaments:
Egg shaped cookie cutter
Straw
Cookie sheet
Acrylic paints
Paintbrushes
Paint markers
Stamp pad (optional)
Twine
Fine/Thin point Sharpie/Marks A Lot
Stencils (optional)
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Mix the 1 cup flour, ½ cup of salt and ½ cup of water in a mixing bowl. I just mixed and kneaded the dough with my hands until the dough formed into a nice malleable ball. Then very lightly dust your surface and rolling pin with flour and roll out the dough. Keep the dough at least a ¼ of an inch or so thick.
Cut out your egg shapes and also use a straw to create a hole at the top of the ornament. Bake the eggs then for 2 hours.
We used quite a few different techniques and mediums in which to decorate the eggs. The ink pads created a light watercolor-type design and the acrylic paints gave a nice pop of color while drying quickly enough to overlap colors without much wait time. However you and your kids choose to decorate the eggs, have fun!!
Fingerprint ink pad and acrylic paint animals – I was a little disappointed when the salt dough itself wouldn’t transfer over a fingerprint from the kids. (It does do a wonderful handprint though!) So, I instead opted to do little fingerprint animals. Now those fingerprints didn’t transfer over wonderfully either, but the little animals are still pretty cute.
If you need step-by-step drawing instructions for the animals…. take a peek at Pinterest where you’ll find a whole menagerie of fingerprint animals to inspire you!!
The acrylic paint is a wonderful option for this craft because it dries so quickly. The cons are that it doesn’t transfer over from skin to dough that well and the fingerprint intricacies are non-existent! 
But they’re still so cute!
I had to repaint the kids fingers sometimes 3-4 times to fully fill in the fingerprint on the dough, but then we were able to decorate with the sharpie fairly quickly.
Mom’s favorite combo was painting an egg entirely, then using the sharpie to draw in my lines and finally decorate with the paint pens. I happened to have these paint pens from a previous craft and the spring colors were perfect for this Easter craft! I used stencils for the word “Easter” and had fun painting them in once the kiddos were fast asleep!
We made sure to mark on the back which kidlet made which egg and noted 2015 for reference in the years to come. A fun holiday reminder for them and a fairly quick and easy project for you!