Tag: Earth day

Earth Salt Dough Handprint

Materials:

  • 1½ cup flour
  • 1½ cup salt
  • ¾ cup water
  • Measuring cups
  • Mixing bowl
  • Spatula for mixing
  • Rolling pin
  • Circle shape for cutting out a circle shape – We used a mixing bowl.
  • Green paint
  • Blue paint
  • Paintbrush
  • String
  • Straw

Directions:

  1. Mix the flour, salt and water in a mixing bowl.
  2. Roll out the salt dough to about 1 cm thickness.
  3. Cut out a circle shape using a cookie cutter, bowl, etc.  Make sure the circle shape is large enough for your child’s handprint to fit.
  4. Press a handprint in the dough and use a straw to make a hole for string.
  5. Bake at 200 for 3 hours.
  6. After it has cooled, paint with green and blue paint like the Earth.

Earth Sun Catcher

Materials:

Directions:

  1. Cut a circle out of black circle making a circle frame.  For ours, we cut the outer circle to be 11 inches in diameter and the inner circle to be 10 inches in diameter.
  2. Cut a circle out of contact paper that it slightly larger than the inner circle of the frame.  For ours, we cut the contact paper to be 10.5 inches in diameter.
  3. Peel the contact paper backing off and stick to the circle frame.  If you are not doing the project immediately, then you can put the contact paper backing onto the contact paper to keep it sticky.
  4. Cut blue and green cellophane into squares and different shapes.
  5. Stick the cellophane onto the contact paper covering it completely.
  6. Hang in a window to enjoy!