Doing salt dough projects is one of my favorite art projects
to do. I truly love to make the dough; it can also be very fun for students to
make. Who doesn’t love getting a little messy? The great thing about salt dough
projects is that you can pretty much do anything with it. Salt dough can be
used as purely self-expression or it can even be used in the classroom as a
teaching tool.
For the self-expression there really isn’t any limits to
what can be done with salt dough. I recently even did an art project with salt
dough. I made a lion. The lion was both a representation of my favorite movie “The
Lion King” and a representation of the word that I want to work on for myself
this year (explained in my first post): courage. In my mind lions represent power
and courage, so with that in mind a decided to make a lion. It was a great way
to represent myself at that moment in time. This can be something fun a
creative for students to do.
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| Picture Credit: Pinterest |
Another subject that salt dough can be a helpful teaching
tool in is social studies. I have seen salt dough be used to create a small map
of different states. The students would make the salt dough into
the shape of
the state and then put different features that the state contains. They could
even make bigger versions if they wanted to in order to add more details to
their maps. Another thing that I thought might be a fun thing for students to
do is to create the different phases of the moon out of the salt dough! Bring science
into the mix!
Salt dough is a very versatile and useful tool in a creative
classroom :)
Focuses:
Self-expression
Hands on learning
Versatility
For salt dough recipe click here
