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Making Memories: Recipes for Homemade Holiday Ornaments
By Annie B. Bond
Decorating the tree is so much more meaningful when you have ornaments and memories that you and your family have created from scratch.
These two techniques for making holiday ornaments are fun for kids and will keep so that they can be reused year after year.
MAKE, BAKE, AND DECORATE
This is an excellent recipe for homemade ornaments.
The dough is very easy to work with, and once baked
the ornaments are very firm and easy to paint.
INGREDIENTS
1 cup salt
2 cups flour
1 cup water
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
Water-based paints
Place dry ingredients in a bowl, add the water
and oil, then stir until blended. Once the dough
holds together, make it into a ball and
knead it with your hands to make
a smooth texture.
Place the dough
on a cutting board, and using a rolling pin, roll the dough
out into a pancake shape that is a bit thicker
than you would use for regular cut-out cookies. Cut out
the ornaments with cookie cutters, design your own
ornaments using a blunt knife, or shape dough with
your fingers. Punch or carve a hole into the top of
the ornament to thread a string through to hang the decoration.
Bake at 250 degrees until hard (for one to two hours).
Once cooled, paint with water-based paints if desired,
or glue on glitter using white household glue. Thread a string
or ribbon through the hole and hang the decoration on the tree
or elsewhere in your home. These ornaments can be reused year after year.
EGG SHELL ORNAMENTS
These ornaments are just about the most eco-friendly holiday ornaments you can make. Although these ornaments are very fragile, you can reuse them year after
year if you handle them with care.
INGREDIENTS
Fresh eggs
Sterilized sewing needle (sterilize by holding over a lit match)
Water-based paints
Glitter
White household glue
Pipe cleaners
Poke a hole into the top and bottom of
each egg. Blow into the hole at
the top of each egg (the small end) so that the insides of
the egg comes out through the bottom hole, into a bowl
below. Save all the eggs’ insides for cooking. Paint the eggs
with water-based paints, or coat the eggs with
white household glue before covering their surface with glitter.
Bend one end of each pipe cleaner into a “U” shape (so that
the “U” is about 1 inch in length). Gently insert the other end of the pipe cleaner into the
top of the egg, and use the end with the “U” to hang the egg on a tree.
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The egg ornaments would make a cute little Easter Tree for the Grandkids.
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what do i cook them on? it doesnt say in the recipe but im very excited to make them
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I want to thank you for the recipes for the homemade ornaments that you bake,when I was a little girl my family would get together every year to make this,he recipe got lost some how,I have been looking for this for years now since I have grandkids now I want to make these with them like I did with my family. so thank you so very much !!
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"Recycled" ornaments for older kids using plastic product lids. These can be used indoors or outside. Over the year, gather thin, solid colored plastic covers and lids to products you're using. Using an ultra-thin or thin perma-marker to trace cookie cutters or other shapes onto the plastic lids. The shape must be able to hold its own rather than require drawn details; the smoother the outter line, the easier. Using scissors, cut out the shapes. Put a hole in the top of the shape using a hole punch. Run a ribbon or other type of tie through the hole, tie off into a loop. Hang from the looped string.
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This sounds like lots of fun! I'm going to try it. Thanks!
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