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Family Forum / Parenting / Parenting / November 2003Christmas Ornament Dough
One part salt, one part water, two parts flour. Makes a pliable easy to mould dough that you can make ornaments, jewellry, napkin rings, you name it out of - and it obviously wouldn't hurt any kid who happened to try a nibble while you were making something out of it. You can roll out the dough and cut out with cookie cutters to make ornaments - so its perfect for very small kids who can't necessarily make a shape, but could paint a shape you made with a cookie cutter. Cheap, easy to handle and the results are great. If what you've made is very thick, prick with a fork to let the air out. Bake with at 135C (275F) for an hour, or until golden yellow. You can paint your ornaments with poster or water colour paints, sparkles, whatever and let them dry and then varnish, and they last for years (they are quite hard and tough). I'm in my late 40's, and my brother (who inherited my father's Christmas decorations) still has a pile of ornaments we made out of this stuff as kids - he has some funny ones, including an upside down girl who hangs by one foot, and a "Mr. Bill" I made more than 20 years ago. On some of them, we embedded paperclips as hangers for the ornaments. Mary G. > One part salt, one part water, two parts flour. Makes a pliable easy > to mould dough that you can make ornaments, jewellry, napkin rings, [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > If what you've made is very thick, prick with a fork to let the air > out. Bake with at 135C (275F) for an hour, or until golden yellow. Thanks Mary, and everyone! This is what we ended up doing (although I wish I had known about the fork pricking). Emma helped roll the dough and used the cookie cutters. She then painted and glittered them. I've sealed them and will let her glue some trinkets on them tomorrow. We've made plenty so I think the Grandma's will get some for Christmas. They turned out very cute. Mary >One part salt, one part water, two parts flour. Makes a pliable easy >to mould dough that you can make ornaments, jewellry, napkin rings, >you name it out of - and it obviously wouldn't hurt any kid who >happened to try a nibble while you were making something out of it. Have you tried rice flour with this? Curious because I have a child with celiac disease and he can't use playdough with wheat flour, so your statement above is true if a child doesn't have a problem with gluten, but one that does would be harmed by this dough if he put it in his mouth. -- Dorothy There is no sound, no cry in all the world that can be heard unless someone listens .. The Outer Limits > One part salt, one part water, two parts flour. Makes a pliable easy > to mould dough that you can make ornaments, jewellry, napkin rings, [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > If what you've made is very thick, prick with a fork to let the air > out. Bake with at 135C (275F) for an hour, or until golden yellow. Thanks for posting this, Mary. We were just at the craft store tonight and bought some paints in anticipation of doing this activity tomorrow....I was going to look up a recipe on the net but you just saved me the trouble. Now I'm just wondering if I have any flour left... cara |
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