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How to Make Wood Dough |
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If your kids like playing with dough like Play-Doh or molding clay, they will love making sculptures with homemade wood dough. Homemade wood dough dries to a wood finish and can be sanded down smooth with sandpaper. You can also paint or stain wood dough sculptures. To paint them, you can use any of the homemade paint recipes I have at the bottom of this article. To stain them, you can make a stain by adding 6 drops of food coloring to 1 tablespoon of water. What you will need to make wood dough: Step 1: Mix the ingredients together in a bowl until a stiff dough is formed. If the mixture is too dry, you can add a bit more water. If it is too sticky, you can add a bit more flour. Step 2: Create your sculptures. Step 3: Let your sculptures dry for 3 days. Step 4: Sand and paint or stain your sculptures, if desired. Tips: You can make wooden beads with wood dough. Just be sure you make a hole in the beads with a toothpick before they dry. Here are some homemade paint recipes you can use to paint your wood dough sculptures! How to Make Finger Paint with Flour How to Make Finger Paint with Cornstarch How to Make Finger Paint with Laundry Starch How to Make Finger Paint with Gelatin
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