1. Salt dough

2. Ingredients 2 cups flour 1 cup salt 1 cup water You can make this using any cup, mug or pot. Just use the same one for each measurement and you’ll be fine.

3. Method Combine flour, salt and water in a mixing bowl until it forms a dough. Knead on a lightly floured surface until a soft doughy ball forms. If you want a coloured dough add food colouring to the water.

4. Preparation Roll dough between two sheets of floured parchment paper or cling-film. This is because the dough is quite sticky. The dough is also very fragile. The thicker you roll it the easier it is to work with. For younger children keep it quite thick.

5. Decoration Place items on to a baking tray lined with parchment paper BEFORE you decorate them As they will be dried at a very low temperature you can use lots of additions including jewels, mirrors, beads, stamps, ink prior to baking Don’t forget the hanging holes. A drinking straws is ideal for this.

6. Baking Bake finished creations for about 3-hours at 75C. You can turn them half-way (or not!) Leave to cool in the oven.

7. Finishing Once completely dry you can paint and/or varnish them then finish with ribbon. NB: Unused dough can be wrapped in a sandwich bag and kept in the fridge for up to six weeks.