Craft Recipes

These are recipes to use with your crafts.

Chocolate Clay

10 ounces of chocolate chips, melted

1/3 cup light corn syrup

Wax paper

Add the melted chocolate to the corn syrup and mix well. Pour on wax paper and pat to ½ inch thick. Let cool at room temperature until firm. Wrap well and store until needed. Cut into home made tootsie rolls. Use the pastel chips at cake decorating shops. These work well for other colors.

Outdoor Bubbles

Plastic Jar

Spoon

½ cup liquid dish soap

8 cups water

Bubble blower or straw

Pour all ingredients into jar and mix well. Go outside and blow your bubbles.

Super Slime

Materials:

1 tbsp. liquid starch

2 tbsp. white glue(Elmer's)

3 drops food coloring(optional)

Plastic egg or screw top jar(baby food)

Bowl

Process:

1. Put starch in bowl.

2. Add glue and let set 5 minutes.

3. If desired, add coloring.

4. Mix until starch is absorbed and color is spread smoothly. (Hint: The longer you mix, the better it gets.)

5. Store in plastic egg or small jar overnight before using to pick up pictures from comics.

6. Use to bounce, pick up pictures from comics or newspaper, and mold into shapes.

Hints:

1. If left in open air, it will melt, then turn hard.

2. Add 1 tsp more starch for a tougher, more rubbery, slime or putty.

3. Lasts several days if stored air tight.

4. If putty dries out or gets tough, just dip into warm water and knead.

Easy Bread Dough

½ c plus 1 tbsp. flour

¼ c salt

3 ½ tsp. liquid oil(vegetable)

¼ cup warm water

Food coloring(optional)

Put flour, salt and oil in a bowl. Thoroughly mix with a fork until the oil lumps are very small. Add warm water. If you are using food coloring, add it to water first. Continue mixing until the dough mixture forms a ball and all the flour is picked up. Knead dough in hands until soft and easy to work with. Add separate dough parts by applying water to the area first. Best when baked at 250 degrees for ½ to 1 hour, depending on the thickness of the dough. Works nice to paint and seal.

Cut Out Cookies

2 sticks butter, softened

1 cup sugar

2 ½ cups flour

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla

Cream the butter and sugar until blended. Add egg and vanilla. Then slowly add the flour. Chill dough. Make cutouts. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes on an ungreased cookie sheet.

Salt Dough

Ingredients:

1 cup flour

1 cup water

½ cup salt

1 tbsp. Vegetable oil

1 tbsp. Cream of Tarter

Food Coloring

Mix all ingredients together with a mixer. Add food coloring to get the desired color.

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