Our Salt Dough Maps and the Recipe!

Salt dough recipe:

4 cups flour
2 cups salt
2 cups water
2 tablespoons cream of tartar

Mix with your hands (that's the fun part!) until it's the consistency of play doh. Add more flour or water as necessary.


First, we started with a map of the United States.


Then, we mixed and measured flour, salt, cream of tartar, and water to make a salt dough.



Then, we mixed in the water and kneaded the dough by hand.


Then, we used a physical map to see where the various landforms we studied were located.


Next, we covered our United States map with the salt dough.



Then, it was time to make the mountains, plains, rivers, and lakes.




Our salt dough maps are completed.


We let the salt dough dry overnight.


The next day it was time to paint the map and landforms!














What a fun, educational project!!