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How to Make Salt Dough Ornaments

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Ingredients

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  • 4 cups, Flour
  • 1 1/2 cups, Salt
  • 1 1/2 cups, Water
  • Cookie Cutters

Decorating Supplies

  • Acrylic Paints
  • Paint brushes, various sizes
  • Varnish

Instructions

  1. Combine flour and salt together in a medium bowl, slowly add the water and mix until a soft ball forms. Knead the dough for about 2 minutes, or until it is mixed. The dough should be the consistency of a pie dough or bread dough. If it is too sticky add a little more flour, if too stiff, add a little more water.
  2. Take half the dough and flour your board and roll out to about 1/4″ thick.
  3. Take your cookie cutters and make shapes in the dough, making sure you press down evenly so the imprint will remain.
  4. Tear away your unused dough from around the shapes and use a spatula to pick up the shapes and place them on an ungreased cookie sheet. 
  5. Bake at 300 for approximately 25 minutes (or until hard, but not brown).
  6. Wait about 15 minutes for the cookies to cool completely and then get the kids painting them and writing names on these little keeepsakes. 
  7. After the paint has dried for at least a day, wipe varnish over each ornament to preserve them.

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