Here’s my all-time favorite recipe for dough craft:

Ingredients by volume
• 2 parts flour
• 1 part salt
• 1 part warm water
• acrylic paint or food coloring (optional)

Directions
• Mix in flour and salt in a stand mixer.
• Plain salt dough: Add warm water.
• Colored salt dough: Add coloring to the center and pour the warm water over it.
• Knead with the dough hook.

Hints for kids’ salt dough
• Add the colors to the salt dough rather than paint on the models after they have dried.
• To make lots of different colors, use the acrylic craft paint pot set with: 1/2 cup flour, 1/4 cup salt, 1/4 cup water, 1 paint pot (use a toothpick to scoop it out)
• Put the finished models on a wax-lined cookie sheet and let it air dry at least one day, flipping it over once.