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How to make Snow Paint or Textured Snow:
You need: white acrylic paint and sand
Fill an empty jelly or mustard jar about half full with white paint. Add about 2 tablespoons of sand and mix in with the white paint. Continue adding sand and mixing as you go along until the mixture is thick. Apply with a small spatula on your item. The paint will need to dry overnight.
This is great for giving a winter effect on your painted wood items.
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How to make salt dough:
You need: 2 cups of flour, 2 cups of salt, 2 Tablespoons of wallpaper paste powder and 1/2 - 3/4 cups of water.
Knead all of the ingredients in a bowl and cover. Let it sit for about 30 minutes. Afterwards knead again. It should be smooth.
Cover your baking pan with baking paper. Make the desired figures and place them on the baking pan. Let the figures rest overnight.
The next day you can bake the figures according to their thickness: For each 1/4 inch thickness you need to bake for 1 hour in a 175° oven. That means for 1 inch you need to bake for 4 hours.
Then for all thicknesses you need to continue baking:
1/2 hour at 210°
1/2 hour at 250°
and 1 hour at 300°.
You can paint your salt dough figures after baking them with water paint, acrylic paint or tempera paint. When the paint is dry, seal the figures with acrylic clear gloss sealant.
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How to make Textured Paint:
Follow the instructions for the snow paint to the left but use colored paint instead of white paint.
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How to make dried orange and apple slices
You first need to cut your oranges and/ or apples into thin slices. Take kitchen paper towel and lay it on a microwavable plate. Arrange your slices on the paper towel and place the plate in the microwave. Set it to the lowest setting and turn it on for 15 minutes. Then turn the slices over and repeat. Continue until the pieces are dried out.
If you have a radiator, you can also lay paper toweling on the top and arrange the slices on it. Turn the pieces regularily. It will take days for them to dry but this method is cost efficient if the radiators are anyway turned on. Also this method will add also a slight apple or orange scent to the room.
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