Salt Dough Letters

I saw these on another friends instagram page and absolutely fell in love with how bright they were. Salt dough is usually a tan colour, so you can imagine how I jumped to the opportunity to ask about their bright colour. When we spoke she mentioned to just add paint...my mind was blown with how simple that was! So, here I am, writing this up so you can refer to it anytime you like! This is the recipe I used to make the salt dough letters pictured below. 

 Ingredients

1/2 Cup of Salt

1 Cup of Flour

1/2 Cup of Water

1/2 Cup of White Acrylic Paint

Mix the dry ingredients and the white ingredients separately. Then combine the wet mixture to the dry mixture. Mix together to form a dough like texture, then knead until its smooth. Wear gloves if you don't want to get your hands messy and covered in white paint. I found using my hands was a lot easier to manipulate the shapes and thickness of the rocks I wanted. 

Make sure to flatten your rocks out a little to make it easier to write on them later on. 

Once, you have a smooth ball of dough, make circles and flatten them out a little (so you can write on them when they are dry). Place them onto a tray and you can leave them to air dry for a few days (3-4 days) making sure to turn them over at least twice. Or you can place them in the oven, on very low heat for about 2-3 hours. 

Once they are dry I wrote the letters on them with a black sharpie, just as I did in the below photo. 

You can check out my instagram page (@play_to_learn_msj) for various ways to use these salt dough rocks in everyday play and support letter recognition, phonological awareness, and word building. 

Make sure to continue to follow our journey, there are so many more wonderful ways to use these rocks in learning through play invitations!