Homemade Christmas Dough Ornaments

Turn an evening at home with your family into a miniature Santa's workshop making dough ornaments. Who knows... this could become one of your favorites Christmas traditions!

These easy little ornaments bring out the creativity in everyone and add to the whimsy of celebrating this blessed season. 

The kids can make them all ornaments for the tree or glue on an inexpensive pin from the craft store for a special gift for a teacher, grandma or friends at school and they make really cute "tie-ons" for Christmas gifts... adding that very special "it's homemade" touch!

Let's get started...

Here's the easy recipe:

1 cup salt
1 cup water
2 cups flour

Christmas cookie cutters (plus trains, teddy bears... anything in the "favorite department")!

Pins for back

Hot glue gun

Mix all ingredients together. Consistency will be pretty stiff. Add extra flour or water if needed. Roll the dough to 1/8-inch thickness.  Cut and shape ornaments. Lift onto a cookie sheet with a cookie spatula. Straightened paper clips work great for poking eyes or adding details .Either take a toothpick and make a hole in the top of the ornament before baking so a red ribbon can be strung through or insert a small loop of flexible wire into the top before baking. Ribbons are great for attaching to Christmas gifts!

Bake at 325 degrees for several hours or until hard. Cool on wire racks.

Paint with acrylic paints. When dry, spray with an acrylic sealer or melt paraffin in a double boiler and dip the ornament in it.

These are great fun... let the kids use their imagination and roll candy canes or add special touches to their Christmas creations.

Merry, Merry!

Happy Cooking with Kids,

Jan McCracken, Culinary Coach