Diy "million-year-old" Fossils
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I love paleontology, and I have at home several fossils and even a prehistoric shark tooth, but I've always thought it would be better to create your own fossils, I tried to develop a time machine, but for some reason it didn't work. So I came up with this idea
WARNING: paleontology is fun, but burning yourself isn't, please be careful with high temperatures.
Supplies
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Get your pre-fossilized materials, it could be anything, a branch with leaves, some small flowers or the feather of an ancient bird. Also for the dough you will need:
-A cup of salt
-Two cups of flour
-3/4 cup of water
Make the Dough
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Combine salt, flour, and water in a small bowl or dish. Mix well until a soft dough forms, if it is too liquid, add a little flour and salt, if there are too many lumps, stir more and add water in small amounts.
Fossil Casting
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Get the dough into cookie sized pieces and then press the materials that you gathered to cast their form into the dough
Fossil Baking
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Bake the fossils at 200º C or 392º F by around 40 minutes or until the dough gets that nice brown colour.
Admire the Fossils
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Just admire the beauty of those newly formed fossils, paleontology is a fine art. Although they are technically edible as they are made of salt and flour, I do not recommend eating them, they are hard and too salty.
Just comments if you need help