Making Bread Dragon Sculptures

I found a recipe for making BREAD SCULPTURES and decided to try it out this weekend. Have you ever made bread sculptures? This recipe isn't edible, but I have seen edible sculptures. Maybe I will search for that recipe too.
It was a fun activity to do with our daughter this weekend.
We first did hand and foot prints and then we created a dragon and a castle. 

Dragon and Castle

After the sculptures cooked for hours, our little girl painted her dragon and castle.

RECIPE

Ingredients:

1/2 cup of salt

3/4 cup of hot water

1 tablespoon oil

2 cups of flour

1. Mix salt and water together to dissolve salt. Add oil and flour and mix thoroughly. 

2. Children can make free-form sculptures, or roll dough out into circles and press in their hand prints. 

3. Dry in 150-200 degree F oven for one or two hours, turning once. These can be left natural or painted. We of course tried painting the next day. 

Recipe from "Month by Month Preschool Almanac," by Annie Stiefel.