Do-It-Yourself: Ornaments

hey y'all! this could not be any easier and it was lots of fun for me and Audrey to do during the holidays! Bake a bunch of these ahead and have friends over to decorate with you! :)

Recipe for Salt Dough Ornaments:

4 Cups Flour
1 Cup Salt

1 1/2 Cups Warm Water

Preheat oven to 325 degrees

Mix flour and salt together and gradually add in warm water until dough forms - knead dough until it is all the same consistency.

Roll it out between two pieces of plastic wrap and cut some shapes using cookie cutters. I let Audrey cut out all the shapes and choose which cookie cutters to use.. she did great!

Don't forget to poke a hole at the top of the ornament with a straw so that you can hang it once it is done.

Bake for 1 hour on a cookie sheet, they shoud be dry and hard to the touch... let cool completely and then paint, decorate, glue on something snazzy and then seal them with a varnish front and back. This recipe made about 2 dozen ornaments and my cookie cutters are pretty big.

Here's what I used to decorate.. I already had most of this stuff at home from previous craft projects... my favorites were the puff paint and the glitter glue! :)

I added some bells for extra Christmas Jingle!!

I found this spray sealer at Wal-Mart

it was around $4.50

Audrey had a blast painting her ornaments!

These are her finished ones! :)

ENJOY!