It’s that time again! Get your kids in the kitchen and make some salt dough ornaments. Good for kids of all ages, but of course you’ll want to judge your individual snowflake’s artistic ability.
Here’s what you’ll need:
- 1/2 cup salt
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 cup water
- Rolling pin
- Cookie sheet
- Toothpick
What to do:
- Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F.
- Mix together, salt, flour, and water until dough is formed.
- Knead the dough on a floured surface until the mixture is elastic and smooth. If dough is too sticky, sprinkle with flour, continue to do so until stickiness is gone. Do not add too much flour, this will dry out the dough and will cause it to crack before you get a chance to bake it.
- Roll out the dough to about 1/4″ thick with a rolling pin that has been dusted with flour.
- Use cookie cutters to cut out as many trees and stars as you want.
- Use a toothpick to make a hole toward the top of the shape. Poke the toothpick into the shape, then holding toothpick straight up and down, make a circular motion as if you were stirring something. Keep circling until the hole is the size you want.
- Place all shapes onto an ungreased cookie sheet and place into the preheated oven.
- Bake for 2 hours.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool completely.
- Paint with acrylic paints.
- When dry, thread ribbon through hole and tie in a knot in the back.
Of course you can hand-shape the ornaments too. Use some glitter glue to add sparkly!
