Stage Props from Salt Dough
Stage Props from Salt Dough
Note: Salt Dough is not edible and all items made from it are for decoration only.
If you wish to make edible copies of these props, please use your usual pastry mixture and cook accordingly.
If you wish to make edible copies of these props, please use your usual pastry mixture and cook accordingly.
Equipment for salt dough modelling:
- Mixing bowl
- Rolling pin
- Board or work top for rolling out
- Baking tray
- Baking parchment or greaseproof paper
- A cool oven
To make salt dough
- 250g Plain Flour
- 125g Table Salt
- 125 ml cold water
- Preheat the oven on its coolest setting
- Mix flour and salt
- Add water until it comes together in a ball ( you may need a little bit more water)
- Sprinkle some flour on a surface
- Make shapes with the dough
- Place on a lined baking tray and bake until solid. This may take 3 hours
- Leave until cold
- Paint or decorate your salt dough model
Stage Pies
Equipment for Stage Pies
- Bun tins, greased
- Paper cake cases (optional)
- Dried beans or similar for the filling (you could use scraps of old kitchen foil, rolled into balls)
- Pastry cutters
- Scissors to snip the lids
For the Salt Dough
- Mixing bowl
- Rolling pin
- Board or work top for rolling out
- Baking tray
- Baking parchment or greaseproof paper
- A cool oven
To make Stage Pies (small):
- Pre heat oven to lowest setting
- Make Salt Dough Recipe above
- Roll out the dough and cut larger circles for the base of the pies, and smaller circles for the tops
- Add the larger circles to the bun tin
- Fill with balls of salt dough, dried beans, foil balls etc.
- Add the smaller circles to make the lids of the pies
- Make 2 little holes in the top of each pie before baking so that the steam can come out. (You can use scissors to make 2 snips in the lids)
- When cooked solid, leave to cool
- Paint as you wish
Stage Chicken Drumsticks
Equipment for Stage Chicken Drumsticks
- Kitchen foil scraps
- Garlic press (optional)
For the Salt Dough
- Mixing bowl
- Rolling pin
- Board or work top for rolling out
- Baking tray
- Baking parchment or greaseproof paper
- A cool oven
To make Stage Chicken Drumsticks:
- Pre heat oven to lowest setting
- Make Salt Dough Recipe above
- Roll out the dough
- Cut out flattened drumstick shapes
- Crumple some foil into an oval shape and place it on the dough
- Fold the dough over the foil, until it is completely covered
- Now shape the leg
- Make patterns on the dough to resemble chicken or turkey skin (a garlic press works well)
- Bake until the dough is hardened
- Leave to cool
- Paint as you wish
Other Props activities:
These activities will be enjoyed by children and adults of all ages.
The activities are rated according to difficulty and level of parental involvement: these descriptions are intended as a rough guide only.
We have rated them to help parents of children aged 8-13, on the assumption that above this age supervision is rarely required, and that below it, supervision is generally required.
: Set it up and off they go.
: Some help needed.
: Challenge yourself.