Make this fun fake baker’s platter with your child

This fake baker’s platter is a fun Saturday craft you can make with your child today.

What you need

• Flat plastic dish or wooden cutting board
• Clay, play dough, or salt dough
• Muffin paper or paper cup
• Crayons
• Crayon sharpener
• Glass bugle beads, skinny beads, rhinestones, and seed beads
• Glitter
• Shaving mousse
• Coloured glue (commercially available or colour your own glue)
• Flour paste (mix 1 cup all-purpose flour, 1 cup fine salt and 1 cup water with a few drops of food colouring)

How to make it

1. Help your child prepare various colours of modelling clay or dough. If you want your bakery goods to harden and set into food sculptures, use air-dry clay or make your own salt dough.
2. To make cookies, let your child roll dough into small balls and press each one down flat with their hand. Use light brown dough for regular cookies or dark brown dough for chocolate cookies. Decorate with beads, glitter, or tiny bits of coloured dough.
3. Let your child roll dough into a long sausage shape to make doughnuts and connect the ends together to form a ring. Use white play dough for the frosting, sprinkle with a few crayon shavings, or use some coloured glue for “chocolate” or “strawberry” syrup.
4. To make cupcakes and muffins, help your child roll dough into balls and place each inside a piece of cupcake or muffin paper. Use shaving cream to make whipped cream and coloured glue to make syrup. Make a cherry topping by rolling a small amount of red dough into a ball.
5. To make gingerbread men, your child can use a cookie cutter to shape the dough and use coloured glue and bits of coloured dough for the facial features, buttons and shoes.

Good to know

• If you’re using air-dry clay or salt dough, let your “baking goods” dry entirely (it will take at least two days).
• Because regular clay or dough will not harden, we recommend that you separate them by colour, if possible, so that you can keep them until the next use.