Geography Fun with a Salt Dough Map of the United States

This easy to makeSalt Dough Mapis a great learning activity for at home or at school.

We have our tried and truesalt dough recipe for maps.

Salt Map Recipe

This is a WONDERUL hands on way to teach kids a little geography!

Make learning about maps, countries, and map features fun with this hands on geography activity for preschool, pre k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade students. This easy to make Salt Dough Map is a great learning activity for at home or at school. This map activity is such a fun way to teach children about elevation, terrain, mountains, rivers, and more.

This seemed to be the right consistency and it made enough dough for 8 x 11 map.

It only took about 48-72 hours before it was ready to paint.

(which for the thickness I think that is pretty good!)

Geography Fun with a Salt Dough Map

Salt dough map

The hardest part for younger kids is getting the shape right.

We printed out a map with different colored elevations and put that on a piece of cardboard.

We then put our salt dough directly on top of the map.

salt dough us map

You might want to reprint your original map as a guide.

We did some paint mixing to get a variety of different shades.

3d salt dough map

Here is our finished map.

painting salt dough map

My son was so proud of it!

He even remembers the family vacation I pointed out for him on the map!

I definitely recommend making your own Salt Dough Map!

hands on geography project with easy to make salt dough map

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