Eye Spy Salt Dough Hearts

 I am so excited about this activity cause it was so much fun. I saw the idea for salt dough hidden treasure rounds on My Homemade Montessori. I really liked the idea of putting little treasures in salt dough and thought we could make hearts for Valentine's day.

 I collected a bunch of treasures- plastic beads, buttons, foam shapes, wooden hearts, wiggle eyes etc.

 

We mixed up some salt dough 1 cup salt, 2 cups flour, 1 cup hot water- mix well.

 

Roll out some dough.

 

Cut out hearts. I got the heart cookie cutters at Dollar Tree.

 Push in your decorations.

 

Let your hearts dry. I tried letting them air dry but after a day they were not dry so I put the in a 200 degree F oven for an hour. I didn't want to go any hotter them that for fear I might melt the plastic decorations.

After the were dry I added a generous coating of Mod Podge. I had to stick some of the treasures that fell off back on too. Let the Mod Podge dry  and hot glued on heavy duty magnets.

 Finished