lacing beads

At the end of October Naomi and I made some lacing beads. She hasn't gotten to play with them yet because I am so slow and other things have taken over my time. But I wanted to post about them anyway. I still need to finish painting them different colors and then find some old shoe laces and then she'll be able to fully enjoy the lacing beads!

Ingredients/Recipe:

1 cup salt

1 cup corn starch

1 1/2 cups flour

1 cup water added in small increments

plastic straw

wax paper

cookie sheet

paint (we used acrylic)

I got a little impatient with the mixing of the ingredients so I added more water but you really don't need to, it just takes a while to get everything mixed together!

We made little circles and really, Naomi just had fun playing with it, she's still a little young to really understand what I wanted her to do. But she made her own little balls and tried to shove the straw into them and make holes. It was a fun project. We ended up with LOTS of extra salt dough so she just played with it and then we threw it away.