I remember when I was in preschool and we had a Christmas ornament craft, make a star, tree or snowman with salt dough and glitterize it. My mom still has the ornament. Today we made some fun salt dough ornaments, and here is how you can do it too!
SALT DOUGH
2 cups flour
1 cup salt
enough water to make a VERY stiff dough
*if you want it scented, add 3/4 cup of cinnamon
Roll the dough out to 1/2 thickness, using all fun types of cookie cutters. These make WONDERFUL gifts to the grandparents, you can make crosses, stars, sheep, trees, snowmen...the sky is the limit!
Cook the dough in 200degree oven for 1 hour, allow to cool then paint! If you didn't want to do the painting part or where making a large batch of "same" ornaments, you can color your dough with food coloring, and add glitter ahead of time. TOTALLY up to you. We prefer to decorate them all different though.
Once they cool, paint them up, glitter them up, and finish off with a spray of clear coat or lacquer so it will last year after year! HAVE FUN!
*ours are cooling..pictures to follow!!!
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My mom still has our ornaments too. :o) and HOLY CRAP!! 1 cup of salt!! LOL! I retained water just reading that!! I want to go home and make ornaments... how many ornaments did you get out of that?
We made over 20 ornaments with all of that! AND, we had leftovers to put in the fridge. Ours were a little soft after an hour, so, we cooked them an additional 15 minutes. Use glitter on them, rightn now, Joanne has these glitter / paint kits for $1, SO MUCH FUN!!!!
sweet! we're going to make some today~
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