Baking Salt Dough Fossils

If you want to keep sand off the floor you can move this activity outdoors.

Baking salt dough fossils. Step 2 line a baking sheet with parchment paper this makes for easy clean up and ensures no sticking to the pan. Then use your hands to knead the dough for at least another 5 minutes. We are currently studying flying creatures for science and making nature fossils seemed to be a perfect fit. It is easy to.

Knead the dough with a spoon until it comes off the sides of the bowl. After your fossils have cooled bury them in your dinosaur sensory bin or table and invite your little paleontologists to a dinosaur dig and find the fossils. I also teach at a local homeschool co op once a week and we made this same salt dough recipe in class 3 batches of salt dough later i think i have mastered the recipe and wanted to share it with you. Step 1 mix together salt flour and water with an electric mixer.

I have wanted to make salt dough fossils for quite sometime. Roll the salt dough to approximately inch thick. I used household baking supplies and found materials outside to create this fun dino fossil. The amount of time needed to bake depends on size and thickness.

Bake at 200 degrees until your fossils are dry. Thin flat fossils may only take 45 60 minutes and thicker fossils can take 2 3 hours or more. The dough should yield about 6 fossil discs. I also gave my kids pieces of parchment paper to work on so the salt dough doesn t stick to the table.

I placed the salt dough in between two pieces of parchment paper and rolled on top of the paper to avoid any sticking.