Salt dough :

3 cups of plain flour
1 ½ cups of fine salt
1 cup of cold water
2 tbsp of vegetable oil
Food colouring (optional)
Varnish (optional)

Skewers

Oven to bake

In Egyptian hieroglyphs, a cartouche was an oval with a horizontal line at one end, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name - rather like a name plate! They were found attached to coffins and also on the jewellery of pharaohs.

Roll out a piece of salt dough to about 1/2cm thick. Cut out an oval. Roll out a long sausage shape. Stick the sausage around the edge of the oval, twisting it slightly as you go so it looks like rope. Press the ends together.

Write your name in the hieroglyphs (see attachment)

Carefully transfer it to a baking sheet and bake at 160˚F (70˚C) for about 2 hours.

When it is cooled, paint the background and rope.

When the background is completely dry, paint on hieroglyphs (or paint over what you wrote with the skewer). Leave to dry. To finish paint on a coat of varnish (optional)