Gingerbread Salt Dough Ornaments
Here’s another easy DIY for Christmas! Gingerbread salt dough ornaments are simple to make and are fun to do along with the kids too.
Gingerbread Salt Dough Recipe:
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 cup salt
- 1/2 cup cinnamon (I bought the cheapest one at Walmart)
- 1 tsp ground cloves (optional but smells great!)
- 3/4 cup really hot water
Mix the dry ingredients together, then pour the hot water in and stir well. Knead the dough until it is thoroughly combined and smooth.
I rolled out the dough on a silicone mat until it was about 1/4 inch thick.
Using regular cookie cutters I cut out as many cookies as I could fit on the dough, then rerolled the extra dough to cut out a few more.
With a straw I poked a hole near the top of each ornament (not too close to the edge or it won't be strong enough to hang).
Put the ornaments either on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
Bake in a 250° oven for about 2 hours (depending on how thick you cut the dough). Turn them after an hour to speed up the drying process.
Once the "cookies" were done I brushed the tops with Mod Podge and sprinkled them with iridescent sparkles to mimic sugar.
Then I ran over the edges with white puffy paint to make it look like icing.
Once the puffy paint dries completely it's time to hang them on your tree.
Thin ribbon, bakery twine, or jute can be used to hang the ornaments. I used a thin jute string.
I hung the gingerbread dough ornaments on my kitchen Christmas tree along with my dried orange slice ornaments.
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I made these one year when I had a toddler and a baby. I found a couple on the flor and thought the toddle had pulled them off. We had high humidity and they fell off the tree as they became soft. Hope you have better luck with yours!
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Easy peasy, thank you!
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CAn you paint them to match your color scheme of your tree .........
Will any kind of flour do?
hello can you eat them too !
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