salt dough

[snowy-willow]

I must be the only person who can get salt dough to work.

I read you can air dry and decided to save gas and do that, fast forward almost 2 weeks and nowhere near dry so tried the microwave method cue some bubbling and soggy shapes. gave in and put them in oven. hope they bloody dry this time.

oh and bought some air dry clay from ELC as a back up, opened it today to find it is mouldy

 

[snowy-willow]

3 hours in oven and still nowhere near dry

 

[Lotty]

I too am rubbish at these..ive tried oven drying & air drying..the air drying took about 2.5 weeks and looked great..until i painted them and they went soggy and snapped i gave up..i simple cannot do them

 

[snowy-willow]

mine were air drying for almost 2 weeks and nowhere near dry.

 

[Mummy2B21]

Eek I was planning on trying these...

 

[sweetlullaby]

Our's arnt great but they're not too bad did take forever to do in the oven

 

[Lotty]

mine were air drying for almost 2 weeks and nowhere near dry.

I had mine on my windowsil above the raidiator that might be why

 

[snowy-willow]

mine were air drying for almost 2 weeks and nowhere near dry.

I had mine on my windowsil above the raidiator that might be why

I had them on top of the oven (well grill!), we don't have radiators so that wouldn't have been possible for us

 

[snowy-willow]

this is them after almost 2 week air drying and 4 hours in oven

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/sianb84/20121125_173244.jpg

 

[youngmamttc]

They have to be quite thin to dry out properly i think, mine were ok but i rolled them out pretty thin and just went with the oven for 3 hours straight away and theyre good to go. I didn't paint mine either i used felt tip pens xx

 

[snowy-willow]

that's as thin as they would go without breaking when putting on a tray and thinner than a lot of others I have seen online

 

[Tegans Mama]

Ours took about 5 hours to dry in the oven

 

[Zou]

I did some footprints of LO for Father's Day. They went in the oven for hours and hours but they did dry eventually. I made the quite thin though. Then painted them in pearlised paint. They're still good now. Then again we made some for Halloween which were quite thick and after ages in the oven they weren't dry so they ended up in the bin

 

[amandad192]

I put some in the oven and the raised resembling brown pitta bread within an hour. We have some air drying for about 3 days and they defo need longer. Might take a hair dryer to them tomoz and see what happens.

 

[snowy-willow]

wondering if some of it would be ok to paint and seal without going mouldy, some of the pieces seem solid (some not so) just still have the wet look in the middle but maybe they are dry just haven't gone the white-ish dry colour

 

[Rhio92]

We did some today, and after 6 hours in the oven, they're still not dry

 

[snowy-willow]

if the clay from ELC wasn't mouldy I would make some shapes tonight for Ella to paint in a few days

 

[R_x]

Mine last year went wrong, I had them in cupboard with boiler so dried ok but went soggy again and just broke when painting them

 

[carly_mummy2b]

I did some today, I put them in the oven for about an hour and they came out lovely and dry and we painted them this afternoon x

 

[Rhio92]

It was so much simpler in primary school when you'd make a few stars and christmas trees, the teacher would take it, then the next day it would magically be all hard and never went soggy, even when the idiot you sat next to split water all over it