This week I'm looking back to Christmas 2003.
My girls and I had an ornament-making party early in December. We tried something new to us, ornaments made of dough. We used Christmas cookie cutters to cut the basic shapes, then we embellished, baked, painted and varnished them.
The recipe:
2 cups flour
1/2 cup salt
3/4 cup water
Dissolve the salt in warm water. Add the flour. Mix thoroughly. Knead until mixture forms a soft dough.
Roll dough to desired thickness and cut with cookie cutters or mold dough by hand into desired shapes. Remember to poke a hole in your ornament before baking so that you can add a hanging cord.
Place shapes on cookie sheet. Bake in 300 degree oven, keeping an eye on them and removing when dry. Baking time will be determined by thickness of ornament.
Paint as desired. We used acrylic paints. On some of the ornaments we added some sparkle paint for extra glitter and pizzazz. Allow to dry thoroughly. Varnish. We used a glossy varnish to get a shiny finish. Tie on a hanging cord.
I also made some beaded ornaments that year. I'll share them on my next #throwbackthursday.
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