MAKE YOUR OWN DOUGHCRAFT

Try it! Doughcraft always comes out of the oven looking better than when it goes in!
If you are too young to use the oven by yourself, ask an adult for help.

INGREDIENTS:
2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
half-a-cup salt
three-quarters-cup hot tap water

Dissolve the salt into the hot tap water by stirring for one minute. Add the salt-water to the flour. Mix with a wooden spoon and your fingers until the dough is smooth. (This dough is salty, so take your rings off.) Add flour if the dough is too sticky to work with. Add water if it is too dry and crumbly. This dough will not keep for long, so use it right away.
Use a square of aluminum foil as a work-surface that you can slide directly onto a baking-sheet and into the oven.
Use toothpicks, bamboo skewers, rolling pins, and any other cheap tools you have in your kitchen. A garlic-press is great for making hair! Light use of a fine-mist spray bottle can help to extend the working-time on your doughcraft.

Bake your doughcraft as soon as possible, because it will begin to crack like summer mud if it is left to air dry.
Pre-heat your oven for five minutes at 300 degrees.
Bake for one to four hours, depending on size.

If your sculpture is as thick as a pencil, it will take a little over and hour. If it is as thick as a marshmallow, it may take forever. Practice makes perfect. Watch your oven carefully.
If your doughcraft starts to become puffy, reduce the oven temperature. Your doughcraft should be the color of a fortune cookie. Do not let it burn. It should sound brittle when you tap it lightly with the prong of a fork.

Wait for your baked doughcraft to cool completely before painting it with acrylic paint. Protect it from moisture with several light coats of clear acrylic spray coating.

Keep your finished doughcraft away from damp conditions and hungry pets!