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Salt dough ornaments

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Flour, salt and sugar = salt dough !

Those are the basic ingridients in your kitchen. But you shouldn't use them solely for the preparation of meals. If you combine all of them with a bit of water you get salt dough. Did you guess where this is going? No? Let me give you a hint: snowman, sleigh and fairy house... You will be making salt dough ornaments this Christmas!
Salt dough hearts and stars

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Making salt dough ornaments

What i'm trying to say is that you can make some wonderfull Christmas ornaments using salt dough. For each ornament prepared from dough first make a plan and draw it on a piece of cardboard or paper and then transfer the model on to the flattened salt dough. Piece of cake!

Not realy, you will actually need quite a lot of experience with that but it makes a lot of fun doing it. If you will need instructions for making the perfect salt dough you should first check this salt dough recipe!



Now that you know basics you can make a fairy house that I mentioned before. First you need to prepare the dough and then flatten it to a thickness of 1/5 inch. Afterwards you need to draw each part of the house on to the dough and cut it out to the final shape. Then place each side of the fairy house on a baking paper and put it in the oven.

BE CREATIVE!
For external side walls you could make some additional cuts to make it look more realistic - this will create the appearance of logs.

I use this to flatten the dough

You can actually choose from many different designs, materials and even those with textures!
All it mathers is that it helps you flatten the dough to the desired thickness.

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Salt dough ornaments

Once finished with desired shape put the dough models in to the oven and bake them to the maximum of 212F. When you see that walls are a little overdone and strong enough you can take them out of the oven. You can start puting parts of a fairy house together using fresh dough to seal corners and other contacts. Now turn off the oven, wait couple of minutes for the oven to chill and then put everything back in it again to let the contacts dry completely.

You will need one of these to create snow out of beaten egg whites

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IMPORTANT !!!
If the dough does not intend to be eaten, I recommended that the ornament is lacquered with spray paint. Also remember that it should be always kept in a dry place.

Some more ideas to get you started

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Baked and chilled fairy house can be placed on a baked dough base which can be decorated as you wish.

Salt dough fairy house

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For the genuine winter touch you can make snow out of beaten egg whites and powdered sugar which can be then placed on the top of the fairy house. Just perfect!

Will you be making salt dough ornaments this Christmas?

  • mamabush Mar 12, 2012 @ 7:01 pm | delete
    I can't wait to make these with my kids this year! We are going to give them as gifts to grandparents and friends. :)
  • cajkovska Feb 28, 2012 @ 2:38 pm | delete
    I love dough ornaments, it's fun to make it with kids.
  • mihgasper Feb 19, 2012 @ 1:21 am | delete
    Very creative. Thumbs up!
  • JoshK47 Jan 10, 2012 @ 10:56 am | delete
    These are so very attractive - love 'em! :) Blessed by a SquidAngel!
  • lilymom24 Jan 6, 2012 @ 11:57 am | delete
    Very nice dough ornaments. I have never made any but might try it for the next holiday season.
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