Salt Dough Ornaments | Ornaments Making
Salt Dough Ornaments | Ornaments Making
Growing up we would make salt dough ornaments with our mom. It was usually gingerbread people or stars and for her rustic tree we would add cinnamon for a shift in the color. It makes them look like actual gingerbread! I wanted to bring that tradition to my house and let the boys make some this year. We used Christmas cookie cutters for the most part, but I did make a new one for our current house key too!
We have many trees so there is different themes going on with our color stories you will see. We also made other ornaments this year like Globe Ornaments and Hand Painted Wood Ornaments that you can check out. This one is super simple in a three step/ingredient dough that you bake and paint (also optional if you add the cinnamon). They're lots of fun with kiddos and make such cute keepsake ornaments to hang for years to come!
Ingredients:
- 4 c. flour
- 1 c. salt
- 1 1/2 c. warm water
- Mix the dry ingredients of flour and salt together
- Then slowly add in the water while stirring until you can't stir any longer
- Start kneading the dough until it is fully combined
- Preheat oven to 300F
- roll out to half an inch at least before using cookie cutters or anything you have to make your desired ornament shapes
- Make sure to use a tooth pick to puncture holes at the top for the strings that will be important to hang your ornaments
- Layout cutouts on a baking sheet and bake at 300F for 1 hour, but keep an eye on them as the bottoms could start to burn (doesn't really matter because the front will be fine, but heads up)
- Let cool completely and then go into paint, decor, glitter, whatever your hearts desire!
All of Roman's ornaments to go with his Snowman Tree & Axel's to go with his Grinch tree!
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