Salt Dough Ornaments

Salt Dough

1 cup of salt

2 cups of flour

1 cup of warm water

Mix all of the ingredients in a large mixing bowl until fully incorporated.

You will need.

To make ornaments, preheat the oven to 300 degrees. Take golfball size bits and flatten them out in your hands. Then place the dough onto a lightly floured surface and use cookie cutters to make cute shapes. Cut an inch of wire cord and bend it to form a U shape. Stick the wire into the top of your shapes. Place the shapes onto a metal wire cooling rack and bake in the oven for about an hour, or until the shapes are completely hard. Once they have cooled paint them with acrylic paints. When the paint has dried, spray the ornaments with a clear spray paint to seal them. Tie some ribbon through the top wire loop.

To wrap these wonderful creations I bought the white paper lunch bags at the grocery store and let the kids decorated them with water colors. We made hand print reindeer, star potato stamps, and traced cookie cutters with markers for some super festive gift bags!