Sand Dough Recipe
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This last week, I finally had a chance to try a recipe that I discovered in the Story of the World, Volume 1 Activity book…sand dough! You already know that we love salt dough, so I was curious to see how this compared.
It’s definitely messier to mix and a little hard on the senses (see note below), but it seemed to bake similar to salt dough and it painted well. We had trouble getting one of our thick pieces, a volcano that Josh wanted to make, to bake all the way through, but we had that problem with the salt dough last time, too. One of our thinner pieces broke. Because the piece didn’t seem thin enough to be terribly fragile, I’m not sure that the sand dough is as sturdy as the salt dough.
All in all, though the sand dough would probably work just as well as salt dough for a flat, immobile project, such as a relief map, considering the mess comparison, the ease of access of materials (it’s easier for me to pick up flour at the grocery store than to head to a home improvement or hardware store for sand) and the cost of materials (sand being a bit more expensive than flour), I’d probably choose salt dough. Sand dough would, however, be a viable alternative.
Kris Bales is a newly-retired homeschool mom and the quirky, Christ-following, painfully honest founder (and former owner) of Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers. She has a pretty serious addiction to sweet tea and Words with Friends. Kris and her husband of over 30 years are parents to three amazing homeschool grads. They share their home with three dogs, two cats, a ball python, a bearded dragon, and seven birds.
I am TOTALLY stealing that idea for the salt dough map. That might be just the thing for my 10-year-old, to spice up our history study. Thanks!
this is a good alternative for me because we can’t use the wheat flour. thanks
I have a dinosaur activity tomorrow and I’m planning on using this for fossils… hopefully it works! If not 30 kids will be sad… LOL