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Holiday Dough Ornaments

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Recipe Introduction

The most precious ornaments on the tree are based on meaning and experience. The fun and enjoyment of making your own salt dough ornaments will provide memories for a lifetime. So have fun, creating your own! Bake and no-bake recipes for regular and cinnamon dough ornaments.

List of Ingredients

Classic Salt Dough Ornament Recipe

Ingredients:
2 cups flour
1 cup salt
1 cup water

Directions:
1. Mix salt and flour.
2. Add in half the water, then gradually add the remaining water.
3. Knead until the dough is smooth, this can take up to 10 minutes.
4. For flat dough ornaments roll out the dough on baking paper
Or be creative and make odd shapes and wreaths (takes longer to bake)

Create:
Use cookie cutters, cut-out templates, or just use your hands.
Dust dough with flour and begin to add details to the ornaments with a toothpick, popsicle stick, and knife.

Don't Forget:
Use a straw to make a hole so you can hang the ornament.

Baking: Time varies based on thickness of ornament
Temperature: 325 degrees
Time: 1 1/2 hours - or until dry

Decorate: Let cool before you begin
Paint with acrylic paints
Glue on beads, buttons, or any fun accessory

Preservation: Making them last a long time
Coat with acrylic varnish when everything is dry

*** Color Variation Notes from our Visitors***
- Substitute coffee for water - great for gingerbread people - Thanks, Shelly
- Add food coloring to make dough a unique color - white, blue, red, etc...

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No-Bake Dough Ornament Recipe

Ingredients:
3 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups corn starch
1/2 cup salt
1 1/2 cups very hot water
1 T glycerine or vaseline

Directions:
1. Mix flour and corn starch
2. Combine water, salt and glycerine until salt is dissolved
3. Add flour and starch mixture to liquid mixture, mix until it clumps
4. Form into a ball, then knead for 5-10 minutes until smooth
Note: Once complete, place dough plastic bag so it doesn't dry out.

Create:
Form ornaments - when connecting, braiding, layering pieces, coat them with water - this will act as a glue.
Insert hanging hook or ribbon while dough is soft
Let dry 2-3 hours before coating, adding decorations, or painting.

Preservation: Making them last a long time
Coat with acrylic varnish when everything is dry


Cinnamon Dough Ornament Recipe

Ingredients:
2 cups flour
1 cup salt
5 tsp cinnamon
3/4 to 1 cup water

Directions:
1.Combine dry ingredients in a bowl
2.Stir in water gradually to make dough
Tip: If it sticks to your hands - add more flour, If it crumbles - add water
3.Knead for 5-10 minutes until smooth
4.Refrigerate for 30 minutes
5.Roll out dough to desired thickness can range from1/4 - 3/4 inch thick
Note: The thicker the longer it will take to bake.

Create:
Use cookie cutters to create teddy bears, gingerbread people, and holiday shapes. Use a straw to make a hole so you can hang the ornament.

Baking: - Check After :45 minutes - 1 hour
Temperature: 325 degrees
Time: 1 1/2 hours - varies based on thickness, bake till dry

Decorate: Let cool before you begin
Paint with acrylic paints
Glue on fun eyes, buttons, ribbon, or any fun accessory

Preservation: Making them last a long time
Coat with acrylic varnish when everything is dry, this is optional.

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No-Bake Cinnamon Dough Ornament Recipe

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups ground cinnamon
1 cup applesauce
1/4 cup white school glue - like Elmer's

Directions:
1. Mix cinnamon, applesauce, and glue together in a bowl
2. Mixture should have a consistency of cookie dough
Tip: If it seems hard - add a little water
3. Knead dough for 5-10 minutes, place in bowl, cover with plastic wrap so it doesn't dry out, and let sit for 30-45 minutes
4. Knead dough again until smooth
5. Roll out dough between waxed paper until thickness is 1/8 to 1/4 inch

Create:
Use cookie cutters to create teddy bears, gingerbread people, gingerbread house panels, and holiday shapes. Use a straw to make a hole so you can hang the ornament.

Place ornaments on wax paper for drying. Drying will take 3-5 days, turn ornaments over a few times a day in order for them to day flat and prevent curling of the edges. Ornaments will shrink a little while drying.

Another Salt Dough Ornament Recipe
Ingredients:
3 Cups Flour
1 Cup Salt
1 Cup Cinnamon
1 Cup Nutmeg
1- 2 1/2 Cups of Warm Water

Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl.
Add in the water a little at a time, keep adding water and mixing well until the dough is formed. Roll the dough to desired thickness and begin cutting out shapes with a cookie cutter.

Place ornaments on an ungreased baking sheet and use a straw to make holes for hanging the ornaments.

Bake for 1 1/2 hours at 225 degrees. Place on a wire rack and return to the over for another 1 1/2 hours to ensure the ornaments are completely dry on the bottom.

Let sit and cool, then decorate.



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