Baking salt dough, help!?

Question

Well, it says I need to bake it for 6 hours. I'm making some little bowls out of salt dough.

Problem is, I don't HAVE 6 hours all at once to bake them =/

Can I do it in stages? I could manage 3 hours and then another 3 hours the next day... would this work?

Answer 1

I always baked my salt dough over night - I was really into it a few years ago.



Put your oven on much lower than it suggests in the 'recipe'. I always baked mine at 120 degrees.



I'd put them in just as I went to bed and then turn the oven off in the morning but I left them in there until the oven was cold.



How long yours will take is hard to say - it depends on the thickness and size of the dough model.



If you bake them in stages they might well dry out and crack.

Answer 2

Here is a bread dough recipe that doesn't require baking

and will work just as well:

white bread with crust cut off and broken into pieces.

Aleene's Tacky Glue

Place bread into a gallon zip lock bag. Add 2 tbsp of

glue and mix well. Keep mixing until dough is soft and

pliable.(if dough is too sticky add more bread-too dry add more glue) You can add acrylic paint and keep mixing

until paint is mixed well. Add 1 tsp. ( too much paint will

make the dough stick). Shape dough into whatever shape

you want and then let air dry over night. Add varnish.

Answer 3

Hi

I found this recipe for glitter salt dough. It sounds neat and much easier to make. The time for drying seems to change with different

recipes. Take a look... Now you have my interest up and I have to try to make some of this with glitter and make x-mas tree ornaments...



http://parenting.ivillage.com/tp/tpactivities/0,,41xc,00.html





http://www.ancientnile.co.uk/saltdough.php



http://www.wikihow.com/Create-Salt-Dough



http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com/christmasfun/kids.htm



http://www.mortonsalt.com/attachments/Dough_It_Yourself_Handbook.pdf

Answer 4

It could work but I wouldn't try ... stick to the recipe and follow instructions - much safer. Hope it works out the way you want it to.