Homemade Ornaments: Guest Post

How to make your own homemade ornaments from Spend With Pennies

Here is a FRUGAL, simple, and fun project for your children this Christmas!

How to Make Salt Dough

Ingredients

• Flour 2 cups
• Salt 1 cup
• Warm water 1 cup

Mix together flour and salt.

Then mix in the warm water.

Mix until you have a dough that is similar in consistency to pie crust.

Take the dough and place it on a floured surface.

Roll out the dough until it is about 1/4 inch thick.

Use cookie cutters to cut out shapes.
You can also USE play dough cutters! 

If you don’t have any cutters you could use a glass to cut circles.
(circles will still be fun to PAINT!)
Put the shapes on a cookie sheet.

Then take a sharp object to put a small hole in each shape where you will insert the ribbon.

Make sure the hole goes all the way through the dough, because it will close up slightly while baking.

Bake the salt dough ornaments for 4 to 6 hours at 200 degrees or until hardened.

After the ornaments are finished baking let them cool completely.

The ornaments are now ready to PAINT! =)

After the paint has dried thread ribbon through the hole and either hang the ornaments!!

Thanks to Spend with Pennies for sharing her homemade ornaments recipe!!