C: Easy to Make CLAY Crosses Using Homemade Dough
These crosses were made by kiddos in the Kindergarten/1st Grade Class.
Homemade clay is easy to make, inexpensive, and can be used in a variety of crafts and art projects. And there are many recipes available, even gluten-free ones. Since my daughter wasn’t participating and no one else is gluten intolerant, I used wheat flour.
I recently made up a salt, four dough for the kiddos in our Sunday program at church. I used 2 cups flour, ½ cup salt, and 1 cup water. I ran out of white flour so I used up some old wheat pastry flour (that I was afraid to use for baking). It made the crosses look like they were made out of stone. I think it was because of the flecks of wheat in the flour.
These are crosses made by Gavin (5th Grader).
Previously when making this salt dough clay, I’ve used food dye to colour it. Gail Bartel (from That Artist Woman) suggests using acrylic paints. So I tried that. I like using the acrylics better than food dye.
- There is a wider range of colours.
- And the paint didn’t stain my hands, counter, or clothes. Yes, I can get that messy!
The clay was successfully used by the preschool to 5th graders to make crosses.
I love how each cross is so distinctly different. These 4 crosses are made by Eliana (4th grade).
The bead and clay cross instructions and examples from Gail are found here.
We will make these again next year.
- We might make some of them into magnets.
- And I will test to see if these would hold up as a rear view mirror decoration.
Your Turn . . . Share a project you’ve made using homemade clay dough.
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NOTE: This post is written for the Blogging From A to Z Challenge. There are 22 categories and my category is MI = Miscellaneous.
During the month of April I will post 26 times finishing up posts that have been in my draft fie for at least a year. For a list of all the posts go to the A-Z button on my header.
Today’s letter is C. The topic is the Homemade CLAY Dough.
Entry filed under: Crafts, Easter, Main. Tags: Blogging From A TO Z CHALLENGE, clay crosses, Easter project.
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music12301 | . at .
This is a really cute idea! I’m going to tell the Sunday School teacher at my church about this!
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susan2009 | . at .
Thanks, for visiting, Victoria.
I bet if your church kiddos get to make these, they will enjoy it and they will be so pleased with the product. If/when they make some, try to take and post photos. It is always cool to see how the final products differ.
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music12301 | . at .
I definitely will, they would be a fun thing to hang around the sunday school room as decoration
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