“Microwave Salt Dough Ornaments”
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Here's a new twist on an old favorite - microwave salt dough Christmas ornaments.

Just follow the simple recipe, cut out your favorite cookie cutter shapes, and microwave a plate of ornaments at a time.

By Teri Hanson

Note: For specific directions on ornaments shown, see below.

If you are looking for some fun and inexpensive crafts to do this Christmas, making ornaments with salt dough is a good choice.

Basically, with salt, flour, water and some decorations you can make beautiful ornaments to give as gifts to family and friends.

On a rainy or cold day, you will probably have these items around the house. This is an excellent craft for kids.

My kids and I started making these about 3 years ago and now it has become a tradition each year during the holidays.

We make these for everyone and now people look forward to getting one each year. You can also make these for any occasion.

We have made them for Valentines Day too.

What you Need:

4 Cups of Flour

1 Cup of Salt

1 1/2 Cups of Hot Water

Holiday Cookie Cutters

Decorations, Glitter, Paint, Beads, Etc.

Knead the dough and roll it out to cut out shapes with cookie cutters (just like if you were making sugar cookies).

Place them on a microwave safe plate and microwave on high for about 2 minutes. Paint and decorate as desired. Most of all, be creative and have a lot of fun!

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Directions for Ornaments Shown:

Half of the dough recipe featured above is enough to make all the ornaments shown above, plus some extras.

You will also need paint in red, green, white, and gold, plus green glitter paint, and trims such as iridescent stars, pom poms, mini candy cane erasers, and glitter chenille stems.

Use Christmas cookie cutters to cut a variety of snowmen, Christmas trees and stars.

Use a toothpick to make a hole for hanging, being sure to make the hole a little larger than you will want as they tend to close when baking.

Microwave a plate of your ornaments for 2 to 4 minutes, depending on how many ornaments you have on each plate and the size of your microwave.

Increase cooking by 2 minute increments until dough appears fairly dry. Let cool.

Snowmen: Base coat white. Paint hats black. Use paint or markers for eyes, nose, mouth and buttons. You can also use paint to add a scarf, unless you are using chenille stems.

Take one chenille stem and, leaving enough stem to form an arm on the left, wrap the stem around the neck, and form another arm on the right.

Cut off excess stem and bend each end in a 1/4" to form hands. Add mini candy cane erasers if desired.

Stars: Base coat white or gold. Add green glitter paint, or outline with gold paint or glitter paint, if desired.

Glue an iridescent star in the middle of each ornament. Take a chenille stem and, leaving a little extra at the top to form half a loop, bend the stem around each star point, pushing in with your fingers until the stem will retain the star shape.

You will find the stem ends at the top with some extra left over. Bend both of these end lengths together to form a hanging loop.

Christmas Trees: Base coat green, then re-paint with green glitter paint. Add gold and white accents in a "garland" effect, then use red to add red "balls" to the tree.

Glue sparkly pom poms or two iridescent stars glue together on top of the tree if desired.

Suggestions: These are just some of the possibilities for decorating your microwaved salt dough ornaments.

This is also a good kid's craft or group project - just microwave several batches of ornaments and provide a variety of paints, markers and embellishments to let everyone excercise creativity.

Properly dried the ornaments should last for years.

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