EASTER BUNNY BANK
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Salt Dough Country Valentine Hearts
Materials List:
Baking parchment
Gold paperclips
Red raffia
Acrylic paints
Paint brushes
Polyurethane varnish
Rolling pin
Small sharp knife
Baking tray
Pencil
Scissors
2 cups flour
1 cup salt
1 Tbsp vegetable oil
1 cup water
Instructions:
Mix together the flour and salt in a mixing bowl.
Mix the water and oil together.
Add half the water mixture to the flour and salt.
Kneed the mixture, gradually adding more of the water/oil mixture until the dough has a smooth, firm consistency. Be careful not to add too much water or the dough will sag and become sticky.
Remove the dough from the bowl and continue to knead for 10 minutes.
Let the dough rest for 30 minutes in an airtight container.
Making the Heart
Print the pattern above and cut out.
Roll out the dough on baking parchment to ½ - inch thick.
Cover the dough with the pattern and using a sharp knife cut out the heart.
Mark the squares with a pin.
Moisten your fingers and smooth the edges of the heart.
Indent lines on the heart, following the pin marks, leaning the knife first towards you then away.
Cut a paperclip in half and insert it into the top of the heart.
Make more hearts in the same way.
Baking
Place the hearts on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for about 2hr at 275 degrees. Allow to cool.
Finishing
When pieces have cooled, paint the heart red leaving alternate squares plain. Allow paint to dry. Seal with five coats of varnish. Thread some raffia through the paperclip loop and tie in a bow.
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Salt improves the taste of cooking apples.
Soak your clothesline in salt water to prevent your clothes from freezing to the line; likewise, use salt in your final rinse to prevent the clothes from freezing.
Rub any wicker furniture you may have with salt water to prevent yellowing.
Freshen sponges by soaking them in salt water.
Add raw potatoes to stews and soups that are too salty.
Soak enamel pans in salt water overnight and boil salt water in them next day to remove burned-on stains.
Clean your greens in salt water for easier removal of dirt.
Gelatin sets more quickly when a dash of salt is added.
Fruits put in mildly salted water after peeling will not discolor.
Fabric colors hold fast in salty water wash.
Use a mixture of salt and lemon juice to clean piano keys.
To fill plaster holes in your walls, use equal parts of salt and starch, with just enough water to make a stiff putty.
Rinse a sore eye with a little salt water.
Mildly salted water makes an effective mouthwash. Use it hot for a sore throat gargle.
Dry salt sprinkled on your toothbrush makes a good tooth polisher.
Use salt for killing weeds in your lawn.
Eliminate excess suds with a sprinkle of salt.
A dash of salt in warm milk makes a more relaxing beverage.
Before using new glasses, soak them in warm salty water for a while.
A dash of salt enhances the taste of tea.
Soak toothbrushes in salt water before you first use them; they will last longer.
Use salt to clean your discolored coffee pot.
Mix salt with turpentine to whiten you bathtub and toilet bowl.
Soak your nuts in salt brine overnight and they will crack out of their shells whole. Just tap the end of the shell with a hammer to break it open easily.
Boil clothespins in salt water before using them and they will last longer.
Clean brass, copper and pewter with paste made of salt and vinegar, thickened with flour
Add a little salt to the water your cut flowers will stand in for a longer life.
Pour a mound of salt on an ink spot on your carpet; let the salt soak up the stain.
Clean your iron by rubbing some salt on the damp cloth on the ironing surface.
Adding a little salt to the water when cooking foods in a double boiler will make the food cook faster.
Soak stained hankies in salt water before washing.
Sprinkle salt on your shelves to keep ants away.
Soak fish in salt water before descaling; the scales will come off easier.
Put a few grains of rice in your saltshaker for easier pouring.
Add salt to green salads to prevent wilting.
Test the freshness of eggs in a cup of salt water; fresh eggs sink; bad ones float.
Add a little salt to your boiling water when cooking eggs; a cracked egg will stay in its shell this way.
A tiny pinch of salt with egg whites makes them beat up fluffier.
Soak wrinkled apples in a mildly salted water solution to perk them up.
Rub salt on your pancake griddle and your flapjacks won't stick.
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Bunny Bank
Supplies:
round cardboard salt container with a metal pouring spout
pink and white felt
goggle eyes
one plastic eyelash, cut in half
1 small brown pompom, 2 medium sized white pompoms and 1 small pink pompom
thin ribbon
Instructions:
1. Open the metal spout and lengthen the hole in the cardboard with scissors so that a large coin will fit.
2. Carefully remove the paper that wraps around the salt container. Try not to rip this paper cover because you will use it as a template. On white felt, trace around the paper rectangle or measure it and cut out a felt rectangle of the same size.
3. Cut two bunny ear shapes out of the white felt, then cut two slightly smaller ears from pink felt. Glue the smaller pink ears onto the larger white ears, then glue in place on the carton to create the bunny's floppy ears.
4. Cut a plastic eyelash in half and glue on below the eyes.
5. Glue "goggle" eyes on below the eyelashes.
6. Glue the small brown pompom in place as the nose, then glue the two medium pompoms together and glue them in place below the nose. Next, glue on a small pink pompom under the two white pompoms as the bunny's tongue.
7. For the collar, glue pregathered lace around the bottom of the container, as shown in the photo, with the hem of the lace flush with the bottom of the container.
8. Make two small bows from thin ribbon. Glue one in place in the center of the lace collar and one in the middle of the ears.
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