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Salt Dough Haunted Houses

Creating salt dough haunted houses is a fun and spooky way to get into the Halloween spirit! To make these festive decorations, simply mix together flour, salt, and water to form the dough. Then, use cookie cutters or sculpting tools to shape the dough into haunted houses with eerie details like ghosts, bats, and tombstones. Once your spooky creations are baked and cooled, you can paint them with vibrant colors or dark shades for a haunting effect. These salt dough haunted houses make for great decorations to add a touch of Halloween charm to your home or to give as unique gifts to friends and family. So get creative, embrace the spooky season, and have a ghoulishly good time crafting your own salt dough haunted houses!

Supplies

  • Salt Dough using the ingredients from this post (flour, salt, water)
  • Silver and black paint pens or sharpies

Americana Acrylic Paints We Used

  • Lamp Black
  • Cadmium Yellow
  • Jack-O’-Lantern Orange
  • Hauser Dark Green optional, for tree

Craft tools

  • Baking Sheet
  • Paintbrushes with assorted tips

Instructions

  • Following the recipe instructions from this Salt Dough Jabba the Hutt craft, combine salt, flour and water. Mix ingredients by hand until well combined and a dough is formed.
  • Separate the dough into smaller portion sizes (about the size of your palm).
  • Continue kneading to smooth dough. Roll out the dough to about 1⁄4” thickness (thick enough so that the houses will stand on their own).
  • Cut the dough into house shapes with triangular peaks at the top. Make as many houses as you’d like in various sizes.
  • Form remaining dough into a cone shaped tree if you’d like.
  • Place all shapes onto a parchment lined baking sheet and bake in an oven at 220F for 2 hours. Flip the shapes over every 20 minutes.
  • Remove from the oven and leave shapes to cool completely before proceeding.
  • Start by painting all of the houses black on both sides. Allow the paint to dry fully before applying additional coats of paint or before changing colors.
  • Use a pencil to lightly draw windows and doors as a guide.
  • Using a fine tip paintbrush, paint windows yellow and doors orange. Let dry.
  • Use a black fine tip paint marker to create cross bars on the windows.
  • Use a silver marker to outline the windows, doors and add other accents (ie. shingles to the roof).
  • Paint the tree a dark green (as desired).
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