by Laura Falin posted in Life & Home

This project has just about every fun activity you can cram into a craft. Rolling and cutting dough. Baking stuff. Painting and decorating. It takes a while for the ornaments to be completely finished, but every step along the way is pretty entertaining.

And there are so many possibilities -- have the kids make a bunch of the same shape, like hearts, to put all over the tree. Have them make ornaments for grandparents or neighbors. Make one each year and put your child's thumbprint in the middle as a keepsake.

Salt Dough Ornaments
Supplies:

2 c flour
1 c salt
1 c water
cookie cutters
white spray paint (optional)
acrylic paints, glitter glue, or other decorations
chopstick or skewer ribbon, embroidery thread, or yarn

Mix flour and salt together in a large bowl. Add water gradually, until you have a firm dough (you may not need the entire cup of water). If your dough gets too sticky, add more flour.
Roll out dough and use the cookie cutters to cut your ornament shapes. Poke a hole in the top with your chopstick or skewer -- this will be where you thread your ribbon to hang your ornament. Place shapes on a cookie sheet and bake at 250° for 3 hours, flipping ornaments over once an hour. When you flip the ornaments, also check the hole you made with the chopstick and reopen it if necessary.

When ornaments are baked and cooled, you can give them a coat of white spray paint, just to cover the whole area and even out any brown spots you g...