St Patrick’s Day is a while away but that didn’t stop us from making some salt dough Leprechaun gold coins. I’ve wanted to try making our own salt dough for ages and I found a great recipe for it over on RainyDayMum which I have adapted slightly.
How to make salt dough coins:
100g salt
200g plain flour
100ml water
Put all the ingredients in a bowl and mix together to form a dough. I turned it out on to a lightly floured board and let my son roll it out and cut out about 20 coins using a cookie cutter.
We placed them on a sheet of grease proof paper and I cooked them in batches of 5 on more grease proof paper in the microwave. We have a 1000w microwave and cooked them for 2 minute on each side and left them to cool on a wire rack.
We painted our leprechaun gold with a variety of colours of acrylic paints before leaving them to dry. Fun no-cook salt dough ornaments. Now we just need to find a rainbow 🙂
See how we used our salt dough Leprechaun gold to make a pot of gold at the end of the (handprint) rainbow.
These look like a really good idea for little ones. Will soon be trying out with J. Thanks for sharing.
Lovely craft idea to make with your little ones 🙂 Now where is the rainbow lol ?
Lovely, seem easy to make(love the idea of baking them in the oven, genius!) and they look really nice!
Aww what a lovely idea! It’s nice to see a ‘different’ St Patricks day idea x
I love salt dough – it used to keep my two quiet for hours!
What a great idea! I really must do some salt dough with my two!
Salt dough rocks 🙂
Wow, these are brilliant! My little ones would love to make these…leprechaun gold…perfect!! 🙂
These look like they’re fabulous for making with little ones, thank you for sharing. Just need that rainbow now – preferably with the gold!
Now I definitely wouldn’t mind finding those at the end of the rainbow – sounds like great fun 🙂 x
These look fabulous, might have to try these myself
What a fun idea. It looks great.
they look great… I am sure they will do the trick
How fun!! x
What a brilliant idea – there’s plenty of rainbows about at the moment.
Looks like lots of fun!
We’ve never really done much for St Patricks day despite being Irish! Maybe we should do a few things this year!
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Thanks for sharing, we still haven’t got round to making making salt dough clay. This has to be a must for one of our activities in the next few weeks, looks so much fun x
I was really surprised how easy it was to make, cooking it in the microwave really speeds things up too.
What a lovely idea!!! I think you should make a salt dough leprechaun too :’) xx
Thanks for the suggestion 🙂
What a cute activity! We’ve just starting thinking about craft and baking activities for St Patrick’s Day and this is definitely going on the list. Pinned!