Salt Clay Mouse

What You Need:

Salt clay

Old metal tablespoon

Cookie sheet

Black, red, and white tempera paint

Paper plate, for mixing colours

Thin paintbrush


What You Do:

1. Press a lump of clay into the spoon for a mouse body. Gently pull the clay along the spoon's handle for a tail.
   
   
2. Roll tiny balls of clay for eyes, nose, and ears; press them into the rounded mouse body.
   
   
3. Place the mouse- still in the spoon- on a cookie sheet. Ask a grown up to bake the clay until hardened in oven, or allow to air-dry. Then, carefully slide the clay mouse off the spoon.
   
   
4. Mix some black and white paint to paint the mouse gray; mix red and white paint for a pink nose. Add black details for the eyes and ears.