Make some adorable Christmas tree ornaments with just a few ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen.
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Materials:
- 1 Cup Flour
- ½ Cup Salt
- ½ Cup Water
- Baking Sheet
- Parchment Paper (optional)
- Cookie Cutters or Knife
- Rolling Pin
- Straw or Paint Brush (to make the hole)
- String or Yarn
- Paint
- Scissors
Step 1:
Preheat oven to 250 degrees.
Combine your flour, salt, and water in your bowl or mixer and thoroughly mix. If you’re using your KitchenAid Stand Mixer, use your dough hook attachment.
Step 2:
Cover your counter with some parchment paper, if you’re using some, and place your mixed dough on top. Use your rolling pin to smooth out the dough on the paper about ¼” thick.
Note: you can sprinkle some additional flour if the mixture is sticky at all to make it less sticky and easier to handle.
Step 3:
Cut out your ornament shapes with your cookie cutters or use a knife to make the shape you’re going for. I didn’t have a cookie cutter in a sweater shape, so I just free handed the shape with a butter knife.
Step 4:
Use tools to make some designs into the ornament if you would like to. I used a small piece from a cake roller I have to make the lines in my sweater ornament. I used just a small butter knife to make the “V” shapes in the round ornament to imitate the stockinette stitch look.
Step 5:
Place your ornaments on your baking sheet.
Using the non-brush side of a small paint brush or a straw, make a little hole on the ornament where you’ll end up hanging the ornament from.
Step 6:
Bake them in the preheated oven for 2 hours so they can dry.
Step 7:
After the ornaments are cooled down, you can decorate them with the paint of your choice.
If I’m using spray paint, like this Metallic Gold, I like to put the pieces in a small cardboard box to contain the paint inside the house a little better. I lined the floor under the box with some newspaper to catch any overspray or if the box corners leaked at all. (which it did!)
Step 8:
Allow your ornaments to dry completely after being painted.
Cut a small piece of your string or yarn and attach it to your ornament and tie a knot at the top.
