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Making your own Dough Ornaments

Posted on 24. Dec, 2007 by Crafty Mom in Christmas, Holiday Crafts

Making Christmas ornaments for your tree can be loads of fun. Many traditional means of making ornaments for the tree include stringing popcorn, hanging candy canes on the tree or creating ornaments from a mixture of flour and water, and a few other ingredients baking them, allowing them to cool and then painting them.

Here is the recipe for Dough Ornaments:

Materials: 2 cups flour, 1 cup salt, 2 tbsp vegetable oil, 1 cup water, paint

Instructions: Mix flour, salt, and vegetable oil. Slowly add the water (3/4 to 1 cup) until you get a clay consistency. Work the dough into the shapes that you want. Use cookie cutters, play dough tools, or anything you can find. Don’t forget to bring out the garlic press to make hair! (The stamps designed for play dough work great for the toddlers) Use a paint brush dipped in water to smooth out the edges of finished shapes. Don’t forget to make a hole so you can hang your ornaments (I use the blunt end of a wooden shishkabob skewer). Bake your ornaments in a 250 degree oven for approximately 1 hour depending on ornament thickness. I have found that an ornament about 1/4″ thick takes about 1 hour 20 minutes. Cool and paint!