Fun for the Entire Family
Christmas Scented Salt Dough Ornaments
Ingredients
2 cups plain flour
1 cup salt
1 cup water
2 tsp ground ginger
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp ground clove
2 tsp nutmeg
Optional (but it adds to the amazing smell): 10 drops Orange essential oil
Also optional: Polyurethane Spray - salt is a great preservative, but if the ornaments are being painted, the spray will help preserve them even longer.
- Mix 2 cups of flour, 1 cup of salt and 2 teaspoon each ground spices: ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and clove. If using essential oils add 10-15 drops. Stir until well combined.
- Slowly add in the 1 cup of warm water while stirring. Add just enough water until the dough forms and is close to the consisteny of play dough.
-Knead the dough. Use your hands to knead the dough for 5-10 minutes. Kneading helps to create a smooth and pliable dough resulting in a smooth ornament surface for cutting and painting ornaments.
- Roll out the salt dough on a flat surface with a rolling pin onto a sheet of parchment paper. Dough should be rolled to about 1/8″ thick but no greather than 1/4″ thick.
- Cut out ornaments shapes using cookie cutters. Once the shapes are cut out, do not remove them. Simply peel the excess dough from around them and then transfer your parchment paper to your cookie sheet.
- Make a hole. Use a drinking straw to poke a small hole in the top of the ornament so that it can be hung using twine or ribbon.
- Bake the salt dough ornaments. The salt dough ornaments will need to bake low temperature of 200 degrees for about 30 minutes. Then flip the ornaments over and bake another 30 minutes. Ornaments are finished baking when they are dry and feel hard.
- Cool. Let the salt dough ornaments cool completely before painting.
- Seal. if you wish to add an extra layer of protection to dry salt dough ornaments, add a layer of polyutherane spray on each side once they have cooled and dried.
Recipe from: https://www.rockyhedgefarm.com/christmas-scented-salt-dough-ornaments/
