Best Homemade ornaments

Last calendar week the kids together with I made these ornaments for our Christmas tree together with to give to grandparents. Dan helped me brand them spell John was at schoolhouse together with Joe was sleeping... Dan's becoming my craft/baking buddy inwards the afternoons, I dear it! He loves next me or hence together with helping me amongst any I'm doing. Then the adjacent morning time the kids all got busy icon them.



Here's how you lot brand them:

* Combine iv cups flour, i loving cup salt, together with i 1/2 cups H2O inwards the mixer together with knead for 10 minutes (or knead past times manus for 15-20).
* Roll dough out together with cutting out amongst cookie cutters or role kids hands to brand handprints (if you lot postulate to curlicue out dough a 2d fourth dimension you lot tin add together a niggling H2O to soften it a bit).
* Use a straw to poke a hole inwards the overstep hence it tin last hung together with prick amongst a toothpick to foreclose air bubbles.
* Transfer shapes to a baking canvass that has been sprayed amongst nonstick spray together with bake at 300 degrees for nearly i lx minutes (times may differ depending on the thickness of the dough).
* Paint away!
* You tin gum felt or cardstock to the dorsum for a to a greater extent than finished look, hence hang amongst a slice of string.