Make Your Own Holiday Dough Ornaments!
Henry Gallant
Here’s a recipe for making your very own Holiday Dough Ornaments.
It's simple, fast, and very inexpensive.
With daily schedules bursting at the seams, decorating your
home for the holidays can seem like just another chore on your
to-do list. Although it may seem quicker and easier to buy your
ornaments at your local discount store, consider clearing some
time in your schedule to make your own holiday ornaments.
You’ll find that the time spent creating your unique holiday
creations will be well spent.
Holiday Dough Ornaments a are fun to make with family, and
you will love the sight of them hanging from your Christmas tree!
Recipe for Homemade Dough Ornaments
For the dough mixture, you will need:
4 cups of flour
1 cup of water
½ cup of salt
Food Coloring bottles (optional)
Cookie Cutters (optional)
2 cups ground cinnamon (optional)
For decorating your ornaments:
Ribbon
Acrylic paints and brushes
Glitter, Stickers, Stamps, Etc.
Clear protective paint sealant
Mix the dry ingredients together, and then add water. If you’d
like, you can add food coloring to your dough mixture. You may
want to mix up several batches of different-colored dough, or
you can plan on decorating your ornaments later with acrylic
paints.
For an extra special treat, mix two cups of ground cinnamon
into your dough mixture. Your ornaments will be tinged with a
wonderful cinnamon scent!
If your dough mixture feels too sticky, add more flour. Knead
the dough until it is smooth and stiff. Use a roller pin to
flatten out the dough. Once the texture is smooth and
consistent, use cookie cutters to cut out different shapes. You
can also shape the dough into a design of your own.
If you used food coloring to create batches of
different-colored dough, now’s the time to get creative. For
example, if you’ve mixed up a small batch of red dough and
another batch of regular-colored dough, you can create candy
cane decorations. Simply create one batch of red colored dough,
and leave aside a portion of regular dough. Then flatten out the
dough and cut out two long strips from each batch. Intertwine
the two strips to create candy cane decorations!
Once all the dough has been shaped, use the tip of a pen or
straw to make a small hole at the top of each of your
ornaments. Then place them on a baking sheet, and bake them in
the oven at a low setting for about an hour.
After your ornaments have baked, remove them from the oven and
allow them to cool. Once they are cool to touch, the fun part
really begins. Pull out the paints, felt-tip markers, stickers,
glitter, and anything else you can think of, and begin to
decorate. Be creative.
When you’re finished decorating, let the paint dry for several
hours, and then seal your work with a coat of clear protective
sealant. When the ornaments have dried, string a ribbon through
the top and tie into a knot. You can also use metal hangers.
Hang your new creations from the Christmas tree and enjoy!
About The Author: Henry Gallant is an author of
http://www.ornamentscity.com, a huge and high quality resource
for ornaments on the internet. Visit us at
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