If your using a cardboard box, cut circles, squares and triangle out of one side of the box. Let the kids have fun painting or coloring the box to decorate it. If you have some plywood around have the kids paint a clown face on it. Cut out the mouth, eyes and nose. Make some type of prop on the back of the board using another scrap piece of wood.
Salt Put all the ingredients in a bowl and mush it all together.
If you want to learn more about Salt Dough , Kerstin has more information. Teaching them how to help the smaller species on our world. Cover the paper roll or pine cone with peanut butter. Roll in birdseed. Draw a sting through the center of the paper tube or tie it around the pine cone.