just thought I would share this with y'all it's great fun for the younguns and if your "crafty" you can create some pretty neat stuff Salt Dough Ornaments You will need: - ½ cup salt - 1 cup flour - ½ cup water - Rolling pin - Cookie sheet - Toothpick - Various cookie cutters - Acrylic paints: various colors and you can even use wood stains for a natural effect - Glitter glue or glitter paint - ribbon How to make it: Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F. Mix together, salt, flour, and water until dough is formed. Knead the dough on a floured surface until the mixture is elastic and smooth. If dough is too sticky, sprinkle with flour, continue to do so until stickiness is gone. Do not add too much flour, this will dry out the dough and will cause it to crack before you get a chance to bake it. Roll out the dough to about ¼" thick with a rolling pin that has been dusted with flour. Use cookie cutters to cut out as many shapes as you want. Use a toothpick to make a hole toward the top of the shape. Poke the toothpick into the shape, then holding toothpick straight up and down, make a circular motion as if you were stirring something. Keep circling until the hole is the size you want. Place all shapes onto an ungreased cookie sheet and place into the preheated oven. Bake for 2 hours. Remove from oven and allow to cool completely. Then decorate how you want...One year I made a friend 100 ornament for her tree and stained them all "Pickled Oak" (It's kind of a whitish color) I also use this recipe to make decorative plaques with quotes on them or just patterns
I used to use a receipe very similar to yours when my children were young. We called it 'Playdough' and I divided the dough up into seperate pieces and then added a touch of food colouring to each so that it could be made into shapes just like plastercine. We really enjoyed making little ornaments and decorations with it. Ahhh the memories!! :-D
We call that "troll dough" (what else, being Norwegian? ) and use it for occupying children when we grown-ups have important things to do. We haven't made it for ages, maybe we should. Thanks for reminding me Bluewolf.
I haven't made this for years either. Great reminder and great idea. I think I'll do this with some of my kids at school. Thanks Bluewolf!
Glad y'all like it....and some of you remember.... I was ready a thread on another forum talking about making homemade gifts... and the "Ol' Memory" remembered this in an old "filling cabinet" I hadn't thought about them in years and as I said..I was quite good at one time... and with the way prices are sky rocketing.... Hallmark has nothing on a homemade ornament made with love..and "hommies" seem to be cherished alot more than a manufactured anything Wolfie
