Easter crafting, make, design and paint

Get creative over Easter by making these three-ingredient salt dough Easter egg decorations, perfect for decorating twigs, or gifting, and bringing some Easter joy and colour to your home. Have fun imagining all sorts of designs.

Ingredients

1 cup of plain flour (about 250g)

Half a cup of table salt (about 125g)

Half a cup of water (about 125ml)

You will need

Easter egg cookie cutter, (a glass or cup will do)

Drinking straw

Paint and paint brush

Rolling pin

Baking paper

Baking tray

Ribbon or string

1. Mix the flour and salt in a large bowl. Slowly add the water a little bit at a time, until a dough consistency is formed. Make a ball with the dough.

2. Transfer your dough to a floured work surface and have fun giving the dough a good knead.

3. Using a rolling pin, roll the dough out, use cookie cutters or a cup or glass to cut your shapes out.

4. Add a hole (large enough to fit string or ribbon through) in the top of each shape using a straw.

5. Put your finished items on a baking sheet or baking tray and leave to air dry for approximately two to three days. Alternatively, you can bake in the oven on the lowest setting for one hour, then turn them over and cook for a further hour.

6. Once the salt dough shapes have hardened (and cooled if baked), they are ready to decorate. Unleash your imagination to make all sorts of designs.

7. Acrylic paints work well, pastel pink, blue and green colours create a lovely spring feel, pearlised paint also gives a pretty finish. Try white with blue stripes or zigzags, pink with white polka dots, you can even personalise with names.

8. Once the paint has dried, thread a thin ribbon or string through the hole you made earlier, your decorations are now ready to hang up.