Cinnamon Salt Dough Leaf Ornaments

With this recipe you can skip thickening the dough and just bake the ornaments.

Cinnamon salt dough leaf ornaments. While the salt does an excellent job of preserving the salt dough itself sealing the ornaments will help keep all the decorations you just lovingly applied looking great for years to come. Cinnamon salt dough leaves a great fall craft. These diy cinnamon salt dough christmas ornaments are very simple to make with everyday ingredients. Using a drinking straw or dowel make small holes in the ornaments to hang them later.

Give kids cookie cutters and rolling pins and they will have a blast making their very own cinnamon ornaments. Decorate salt dough ornaments with acrylic paint glitter or other decorations of your choosing. Oct 20 2014 make some salt dough leaf ornaments using scened cinnamon salt dough and leaf cutters. For that reason i often use this recipe instead of my gluten free salt dough ornaments.

In a nutshell you need to make different balls of dough add in the cinnamon roll out the balls and cut leaf shapes. To make autumn salt dough you ll need 1 cup plain flour 1 cup salt 1 cup warm water food coloring in yellow orange and red 1 tsp nutmeg 1 tbsp cinnamon. It s a shame that you can t smell these cinnamon dough ornaments through your screen because the aroma is amazing. A lovely activity for kids to make into decorations for autumn or fall.

Cinnamon dough ornaments are very easy to make and with a few tips you will have the perfect consistency of dough to transform into decoration. We just celebrated thanksgiving and as is tradition in many families the thanksgiving weekend is the time to kick of the christmas season. I like to use spray poly but coating each one in a thin layer of mod podge would also do the trick. Although still super simple the gluten free version requires heating twice once on the stovetop to thicken the dough and once in the oven to bake the ornaments.

Do note that you will need an oven for these and will need to let them cool before you paint them. This is a great activity for children too. Salt dough ornaments are one of my favorite activities to make with the kids. Let salt dough ornaments air dry for 4 7 days no bake option or bake on cookie sheet at 250 f for 1 5 to 2 hours or until all moisture is gone.

After a bit of mixing kneading you will be left with amazing cinnamon ornament dough. Tummy warming sweet spiced apples.