How to Make Dough Flowers
If you want to sculpt flowers to use them for magnets, jewelry, gift toppers or ornaments, make your own salt dough at home. Once you have mastered the recipe, you can make dough flowers using a variety of techniques, including hand-sculpting. This basic primer will get you started on your way to making dough flowers; after that, the possibilities are up to your imagination. This recipe will make enough dough for several flowers.
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Things You'll Need
- Salt
- All purpose flour
- Water
- Plastic bag
- Rolling pin
- Cookie cutter
- Cookie sheet
- Oven
- Paint and paintbrushes
Instructions
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Mix 1 cup of salt, 1 cup of water and 2 cups of all purpose flour in a bowl. When it gets hard to mix with a spoon, use your hands to knead the dough. Mix thoroughly and place the dough in a plastic bag to retain moisture.
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Pull a baseball-sized handful of dough out of the bag and roll it out on a tabletop using a rolling pin. The dough should be approximately 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick.
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Use flower-shaped cookie cutters to cut the dough. If you do not have flower cookie cutters, use a glass to cut the dough into circles and then use a knife to cut petal shapes out of the circles.
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Bake the dough in the oven at 300 degrees Fahrenheit until the dough is hard and solid. This could take anywhere from one to three hours, so check the dough regularly.
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Remove the cookie sheet from the oven and allow the dough to cool completely. Paint the flowers using acrylic paints and use them to hang on the walls or glue magnets to the backs.
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Tips & Warnings
For a more advanced technique, sculpt three-dimensional flowers using your hands and sculpting tools instead of cutting flat flower shapes out of rolled flat dough.
References
- Photo Credit Yeast dough image by Elzbieta Sekowska from Fotolia.com
