Salt and Flour Clay Crafts (日本語注釈付き)

Making salt-and-flour clay in English for the arts/crafts in English classes this week. Here's the recipe I'm using this time:

Here is how you make salt-and-flour clay:
salt: 塩、食塩
flour: 小麦粉
clay: 粘土

(1) Put two heaping tablespoons of salt in a bowl.
heaping: 盛るほど、盛り上がる
tablespoon: テーブルスプーン、大さじ

(2) Add two heaping tablespoons of flour, and stir. Mix the salt and flour well.
add: 加える
stir: かき回す
mix: 混ぜる

(3) Add food coloring, if you want.
food coloring: 食べ物用の着色料
if you want: 好みに合わせて

(4) Stir in water until the salt and flour mixture becomes a paste. If you add too much water, you can add more salt and flour. If the color is not bright enough, you can add more food coloring.
paste: ペースト、糊状の物
if you add too much: 多すぎに加えたら
bright: 明るい（色）
if ... not enough: 十分ではない場合

(5) Set the mixture aside for at least an hour to improve the consistency.
set aside: 取っておく、置いておく
at least: 少なくとも
for ...: （時間）（にわたって・にかけて）
improve: よくする、改良する
consistency: 堅さ、密度、粘度

(6) Before shaping the clay with your hands, powder your hands with flour.
before: 前に
shape: 形作る
powder: 粉を付ける

Here are more links for salt-and-flour clay:
https://www.google.com/search?q=塩と小麦粉の粘土

Eyelashes

My significant other blinked at me with a wide grin.

"You're doing that again."

"Doing what?" she asked innocently.

"Why do you insist on caking on so much mascara that it makes me think you've been attacked by spiders or centipedes?"

"It gets a rise out of you, doesn't it?"

"But, once or twice a week for twenty years, honey. Surely the weight and discomfort aren't worth getting me to complain are they?"

"It's not that bad. I use hypo-allergenic makeup, and I'm used to it. I kind of feel naked without it. But, much though you're the most important person for me to get a rise out of, it isn't really for you."

"No?"

"Every day, I face men and women who judge women on their use of makeup."

"I know about how judging people by their clothes is a no-no, but I guess I'd never realized that people judge people by their makeup."

"Other than skirts too short and necklines too deep, what do people judge beauty by?"

"Uhm, I guess all that's left is the face."

"And what is to the face as the hemline is to the hips?"

I had to think about that a moment.

"Since we don't usually wear masks in modern society, I guess it's hairstyle and ... makeup."

"And do people prefer to work with beautiful women or ugly women?"

"Uhm, I plead the fifth."

"Getting the point?"

"You're doing this to get into people's faces."

"Exactly." And she blinked, long and slowly for me.

So I kissed her eyelids.

"Hey. Don't mess up my mascara."