(affiliate link) that shared a recipe for making homemade gluten free sand dough! Yup. You just need 3 ingredients to whip up a batch of this stuff. Then, once you're done making your creations, wait over night and they'll dry nice and hard. Isn't it cool? You can make your very own long-lasting sand dough sculptures and ornaments! Make Sand Dough Sculptures and Ornaments!
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So this is what the sand dough looks like once you're done making it. It feels like sticky, sandy play dough.
As you can see, it is pliable and soft.
In addition to setting out the sand dough and cookie cutters, I also put out some tooth picks, beads, and stamps.
At first Chuck used his cookie cutters and trucks to play with the dough. Then, he got really involved in making a puffer fish.
Once we finished, I set our sand dough creations on paper plates to dry.
:) His puffer fish is my favorite creation.
We set them to dry overnight and then flipped them over so both sides dried.
Our final ornaments have been hanging for about 2 weeks now and they're still looking great!
Would you like to make sand dough ornaments and sculptures of your own? Here's what you'll need!
Materials:
- Sand
- Corn Starch
- Water
- Old Pot (You don't want to cook food in this pot afterwards)
- Old Spoon (You won't want to use this for cooking afterwards)
- Optional: Tooth picks, Perler Beads
, and Alphabet Stamps
Directions:
1. Combine 2 Cups of sand, 1 Cup of Corn Starch and 1 Cup of Water in an old pot.
2 . Cook the mixture over low heat. Keep stirring it!
3. Once the mixture thickens (you'll know because it'll feel like mashed potatoes and seem very difficult to stir), pull it off the stove.
4. Cover your work area. Once your sand dough cools down, have fun and play with it! (Note: The dough will stick a bit to your hands and table. Also, a bit of sand will fall out of the dough as you play with it.)
5. To dry you sculptures and ornaments, leave them out overnight. Then, flip them over to let the other side dry. Everything will become hard and your artwork will no longer feel as sandy.
(We kept unused sand dough in a sealed plastic bag. It seemed ok, but we never got back to playing with it. After a week it looked kinda funky, so I tossed it out.)
And that's it! I hope you have fun trying out this recipe with the kids!
If you liked this post, then you'll also enjoy these other homemade concoctions:
- Magic Fizzy "Sand"
- 3 Ingredient Borax Free Slime
- Make Play Dirt
- Snow Dough
- Fake Snow Recipe
- Marshmallow Peeps Play dough
- Gluten Free Play dough and rock houses
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