Hohoho Classic Common Salt Dough Ornaments Recipe

This slowly tabular array salt dough recipe is perfect for making ornaments together with gift tags! Not exclusively is this recipe simple, it's also inexpensive, together with y'all likely already lead maintain all of the ingredients correct inwards your kitchen cabinet. Classic tabular array salt dough is the perfect afternoon project to brand amongst your kids! I had my 8 together with 10 twelvemonth erstwhile daughters assist amongst this recipe, together with they were excited to arts and crafts some ornaments to give equally gifts for friends together with family.

Classic Salt Dough
2 cups of flour
1 loving cup of salt
1 loving cup of warm water
Directions
1. Mix salt, flour together with H2O inwards a mixing bowl until a dough
forms.
2. Knead dough on a lightly floured surface, adding additional
flour if needed, until a soft, smoothen dough forms.
3. If rolling out dough amongst a rolling pin, practise hence on lightly
floured parchment paper.
4. Bake finished creations on a parchment newspaper covered
cookie canvass inwards a warm oven (I did mine at 200 degrees F for
about 3 hours, flipping them over close one-half means through
baking.)
5. Once completely dry, finished tabular array salt dough creations tin be
painted amongst acrylic arts and crafts paints together with sealed amongst a arts and crafts sealant.
6. Wrap unused dough inwards plastic twine to continue it fresh. Use
unused dough inside a few days.

Stamped Salt Dough Ornaments
1. Roll out dough on lightly floured parchment newspaper until dough is 1/4 thick.
2. Use cookie cutters to cutting shapes.
3. Use a toothpick to brand a hole inwards each ornament hence that y'all lead maintain a means to hang them.
4. Stamp dough amongst safe stamps - either inked or uninked.
5. Bake equally directed above.
If y'all prefer, y'all tin postage stamp your dough earlier cutting out shapes amongst cookie
cutters instead of cutting together with and then stamping. I tried it both ways together with the results
were simply close the same amongst each method.

Knead until a soft dough forms

I dear how picayune hands are ever hence eager to help!

Wrap unused dough inwards plastic twine to continue it fresh. This photograph shows how much this recipe makes.

I divided it into 3 balls, each is the size of a large handful.

Roll out dough on lightly floured parchment newspaper until dough is 1/4 thick.

The dough should live completely smooth, without whatever fissure or wrinkles. If y'all bake an ornament that had a fissure inwards the dough earlier y'all baked it, the baking volition shrink the dough a bit, together with your finished ornament volition lead maintain a actual crack, hence live certain to actually knead that dough until it is super-smooth. If it's likewise dry out when y'all start out to knead it, add together H2O a few drops at a fourth dimension to soften the dough together with larn inwards to a greater extent than pliable.

Pick out some cookie cutters

Use cookie cutters to cutting shapes.

I didn't fifty-fifty know I had this cookie cutter until my kids dumped out the purse together with found

it...upside downwards basket? mushroom? Now it is! Awesome!

Use a toothpick to brand a hole inwards each ornament hence that y'all lead maintain a means to hang them!

To brand a overnice build clean hole without marring the edge, I set the toothpick direct into the

dough together with and then used a round down or stirring motility to widen the hole. I made the holes about

3mm, together with the argue I tin give y'all that exact size off the transcend of my caput is because I know my

bead sizes! We jewelry artists together with beaders know our millimeter bead sizes similar the dorsum of our hands!

These are develop to larn into the oven.

OR...

We can get fancy!

I idea this Stampin' Up safe postage stamp that I had would larn good amongst the woodland

theme of our cookie cutter.

I inked the postage stamp on a regular light-green ink pad, together with equally y'all tin see, I made ii mistakes.

First, I likely pressed a picayune likewise difficult amongst the postage stamp on the dough, together with second,

I should lead maintain been to a greater extent than careful when inking my postage stamp equally to non larn ink on the edges

of the stamp. That is, if nosotros were going for perfection. But nosotros weren't, nosotros were going

for fun together with I sort of similar the handcrafted await of this ane of a form mushroom!

For this side past times side ane I tried a birds nest postage stamp together with metallic element silverish ink.

I was to a greater extent than careful this fourth dimension when inking together with stamping.

Once all were stamped, I baked them inwards a 200 flat F oven for closed to 3 hours,

flipping them over close one-half means through baking. The parchment newspaper made them

very slowly to flip.

The terminal result: After a picayune lawsuit together with error our stamped ornaments were looking good!

Both the raw dough together with the finished, baked ornaments had a natural, breadstuff color

that got darker amongst baking. They had a overnice organic await together with experience to them.

Later...

We had a lot of fun making tabular array salt dough, but next, nosotros wanted to essay something a picayune bit
different... hence side past times side nosotros created a batch of Bright White Clay Dough!