Often involves cooking and baking in our home. Or making last minutes gifts, or making ornaments for the tree. There’s lots of fun, lots of good conversation and lots of anticipation. Once again, we made salt dough ornaments. They’re so much fun, and so easy - even for the littles.

Salt Dough
This recipe makes a nice, smooth dough that works up nice in the hand and bakes really well to a secure, dry finish. Paint the finished products with acrylics and seal with varnish.

1 1/2 c. salt
1 1/2 c. flour
2 T. oil
1 c. water

Combine all ingredients. Refrigerate dough for 30 minutes. Roll out and cut with cutters, or shape by hand on a lightly floured surface. Bake at 225F for 2 hours. Cool before decorating.

I pray that your Christmas preparations are bringing you comfort and joy!

**** Good Heavens! I had the wrong temperature. It has been corrected now to say *225F*. Don’t want to burn those precious ornaments!

Posted: 12|20|07 at 11:29 am. Filed under: from our hearth and home, from the kitchen, from the schoolroom.
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