25 Days of Christmas-Day 2- (Salt Dough Ornaments)

 

Last night we made salt dough ornaments. The ornaments are easy to make IF you don't have any little trouble making elves running around...if so, it becomes a little more complex, but still FUN!!!

 

 

To make the ornaments just mix:

 

 

1 cup of salt

 

1 cup of flour

 

and

 

1/2 cup of warm water.

 

 

Knead the dough for a few minutes and then use a rolling pin to flatten. You could use cookie cutters or form the dough into your own shapes. I just made pretty pathetic circles and we did hand print ornaments. Make sure to poke a hole so you can put string through it to hang on the tree!

 

Bake at 200 degrees for 3 hours. I left mine in about 4 hours because our dough was thick.

 

 

I let Princess play with the dough before putting it into the oven:

Here is one of our ornaments right before we baked it: 

 

After they were done, we painted them:

And we also painted our faces (well one of us did): 

This is how they looked when finished. Sister made a Justin Bieber ornament:

This is Son's handprint: 

We may have over did it with the paint on this one. Its kind of clumpy, but hey, its not easy to paint while wearing a Princess crown: