As a little pre-Christmas crafting, we decided to go ahead and make salt dough ornaments again. It was a big hit last year and it was an even bigger hit this year! Jude adored playing with the salt dough (1/2 c water, 1/2 c table salt – NOT kosher! and 1 c flour).
I decided to see if I could neatly write ‘peace’, ‘joy’ and ‘love’ on the ornaments as an experiment to see how they baked. Into the oven for 5 hours at 200 degrees.
The words ended up looking pretty nice once they were baked and spray painted!
I love the bright colors we used this year! Its feels like a fairly modern spin on such a traditional idea.
Here’s hoping that your Christmas season is peaceful and full of love and joy!
Your salt dough turned out a bit better than my dough experience (corn starch, baking soda, water). I *think* it would have been better if I baked at a lower temp…The other dough recipe is a bit smoother looking (less pourous) but VERY fragile – I think the ornaments would need to be thicker to avoid breakage.
Y’alls turned out SO cute! Haha – maybe I need lessons from you. Or a cookie cutter. (:
Good to know about the baking soda one! I pinned a recipe for a corn starch one but I’m guessing it would also be very fragile. These salt dough ones are not fragile at all! And yes, cookie cutters are helpful!
Those turned out great!
Those are awesome. I’ve been tempted to do it but was worried they’d be really fragile. I think Aleeya and I will have to take on this project this week!