Salt Dough Ornaments

If you are looking for some fun and inexpensive crafts to do this Christmas, making ornaments with salt dough is a good choice. Basically, with salt, flour, water and some decorations you can make beautiful ornaments to give as gifts to family and friends. On a rainy or cold day, you will probably have these items around the house. This is an excellent craft for kids. My kids and I started making these about 3 years ago and now it has become a tradition each year during the holidays. We make these for everyone and now people look forward to getting one each year. You can also make these for any occasion. We have made them for Valentines Day too.

What you need

4 cups of flour
1 cup of salt
1 1/2 cups of hot water
holiday cookie cutters
decorations, glitter, paint, beads, etc.

Knead the dough and roll it out to cut out shapes with cookie cutters (just like if you were making sugar cookies). Place them on a microwave-safe plate and microwave on high for about 2 minutes.
Paint and decorate as desired. Most of all, be creative and have a lot of fun!

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Reviews of Salt Dough Ornaments:

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  G'Maddy in Colorado in Centennial CO  Nov 8, 2009
Would make this again.
I know this is a great recipe b/c I used the same one 33 years ago when my son, Lucas, was a child and now I am making ornaments with my Grand Daughter. I like the fact that now we use a microwave instead of the oven.
Merry Christmas everyone! five stars

  Latoya in SC  Dec 5, 2008
Would make this again.
I made these ornaments with my husband for Christmas one year. I added cinnamon to the dough and flavored oil so the ornaments would smell good. I preheated the oven to 350 and cut the ornaments out with the cookie cutters. I placed them on a cookie sheet and baked them till they were hard. After they cooled, we painted and decorated them. We hung most on the tree, but we also wrote our friends names on some and attached them to their gifts so they served as name tags. I really enjoyed making them. five stars

  Susan in KY  Dec 5, 2008
Would make this again.
I was so excited to make these with my four kids. I kneeded them together with my hands because that was a little hard. When I was doing it my hands were on fire from the salt. I didn't have any visible cuts on my hands. I don't recommend letting your kids do it. I let them cut the cookies out. When we microwaved them they didn't turn out very good no matter how thick or thin that we made them. They were puffy. two stars

  Leah in WA  Dec 24, 2007
Would make this again.
The dough was easy and fun to make. My family had a great time decorating these together. It was so cute watching my brothers and sisters making them. They aer all under 5 and had a blast! five stars

  A cookie baker in La Pine, Oregon  Dec 17, 2007
Would make this again.
My two children, ages 8 and 5, and I had a wonderful time making salt dough ornaments this year. I used this recipe when I was younger for a school project but baked the dough in the oven. I tried the microwave recipe this time but our ornaments turned out lumpy. I even turned the power level down on the microwave. Any suggestions on how to keep them from bubbling up? four stars

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