Step-by-step tutorial
Step 1
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.
Step 2
Emma rolled out the dough balls. She has her own little rolling pin and will jump at any opportunity to use it!
Step 3
Once the dough was rolled out to about 1/4" (.64 cm) thick we used little cookie cutters to cut out butterfly, heart and flower shapes. These shapes seemed perfect for our treasures.
Step 4
We followed our dough recipe for oven instructions (grown-up only step!)
Step 5
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.
Final result!
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.
