Making Homemade Ornaments With the Grands

Last night we made Christmas ornaments with the grandchildren and even though I am NOT a crafty nana, I so enjoyed watching them have fun.

My daughter was in charge and this is what she did.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup flour
• 1/4 cup salt
• 7 tbsp water
• Round cookie cutter (I used a drinking glass instead)
• 1 drinking straw
• Craft paint
• Ribbon

Directions:

Preheat oven to 300°F. Mix together flour, salt, and water. Knead for about 10 or 15 minutes. Roll out the dough to no more than 1/4-inch thick, then use the cookie cutter (we used a plastic bowl) to make rounds. Press child’s hand into dough. If you’re doing this with really little ones, you may have to go back and make deeper impressions of their hands with your fingers (we did).Use a straw to poke a hole in each ornament (this is where the ribbon will go later). Place on a baking sheet and bake for 40-45 minutes, until golden. Wait for ornaments to cool, then paint as desired and thread a ribbon through each straw hole to create ornament hangers.

Servings: 1 batch will yield approximately 6-8 ornaments.

As you can see we haven’t painted ours yet. We’re saving that for next week. The little ones were tired by the time we started and not interested in anything but a bottle and bed!