Making salt dough ornaments is a holiday tradition that we have been doing since I was a kid in the ‘80s, but the process has been around even longer than that! The use of salt dough is as old as dirt, or I guess I should say as old as clay. Even so, salt dough has made a comeback in recent years and for good reason—it only requires three ingredients, and the festive end product will last for years to come. I love that old traditions can live throughout the decades as we find ways to reinvent them with current day trends.
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SUPPLIES NEEDED
• Rolling Pin
• Cookie Cutters (optional)
• Plastic or Metal Straw
• Cookie Sheet
• Parchment Paper
• Lettered Stamps
• Acrylic Sealer
• Bakers Twine
INGREDIENTS
1 cup All Purpose White Flour
½ cup Table Salt
½ cup Water (give or take)
4oz White Acrylic Paint (optional)
STEP-BY-STEP
• Mix together flour and salt. Add ¼ cup water and paint (if you want a white dough, otherwise leave out).
• Stir to mix. If needed, slowly add more water until you reach a pizza dough consistency. Remove dough from bowl and knead on a floured surface until all ingredients are fully incorporated. Add more flour if too sticky or more water if too dry.
• Take rolling pin and roll dough to ½ to ¼ inch thick. Use a cookie cutter to create snowflake shapes. Use a straw to poke a hole at the top of each snowflake creating a space to thread your twine after baking.
• Place ornaments on parchment-lined baking sheets. Bake at 200 degrees for 2 hours until dry. Flip ornaments every 30 minutes to bake faster.
• Once cooled, add decorative touches with lettered stamps, acrylic paint or markers.
• Spray one side of the ornament with an acrylic seal. Let dry then spray the other side.
• Once dried completely, thread twine through the hole. Hang from your tree or add to gift boxes as gift tags.