Let's Get Crafty with Salt-dough

25 easy-to-achieve salt dough crafts for parents to make at home with children aged 2 and over

These fun, colourful crafts are designed to bring out a young child's creative side. The inventive ideas include salt dough jewellery, cute animals, fun fruit and Christmas decorations. The emphasis is on teamwork, with adults helping with the tricky steps, such as preparing the salt dough, and the young children doing the fun and messy parts, such as rolling the dough, painting and decorating. As well as being enjoyable, these salt dough crafts will help to prepare children for school by developing their fine motor skills and encouraging them to concentrate on a task and complete it. The creative ideas will spark a child s imagination and for both of you there will be great rewards in finishing a project. Best of all, getting crafty means enjoying some fun time together.