Scented Salt Dough Treasures

With a basic salt dough recipe and some lavender oil we made these sweet treasures that smell amazing. I was excited about this as a new homemade gift my children can make for friends, family and teachers. They loved making their treasures just as much as giving them!
How we did it:
Materials List
- salt dough
- cookie cutters
- rolling pin
- lavender oil
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We used a basic salt dough recipe for this project. To give it a swirled look we added the food color after the dough was made and just slightly kneaded it into the dough.
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Emma rolled out the dough balls. She has her own little rolling pin and will jump at any opportunity to use it!
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Once the dough was rolled out to about 1/4" thick we used little cookie cutters to cut out butterfly, heart and flower shapes. These shapes seemed perfect for our treasures.
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We followed our dough recipe for oven instructions (grown-up only step!)
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Once our treasures were done and cooled Emma added a drop of lavender oil to the back of each one. Our house was smelling amazingly relaxing at this point of the craft.
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These little treasures were so simple to make and really came out beautiful. They are going to make great gifts and we even added some to a little jar to sit in our art room and make our room smell wonderful.