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Microwave Salt Dough Christmas Ornaments

Since opening up the Christmas ornament box and finding some of their old salt dough ornaments they had made in past Christmas's, that is pretty much all my girls have been able to think about. So when we finally sat down to make them they were more than a little bit excited. I got online to find a recipe, and was excited to find one that you could bake in the microwave! I decided to give it a try, and although the ornaments came out a little bubbly, I thought it was great. Instead of waiting over an hour for the ornaments to dry in the oven it only takes about 3 minutes in you microwave. The girls had a lot of fun painting the ornaments and applying lots of glitter and sparkles. I have included the recipe and directions at the end of this post.

Brianne and Kaylee busy painting their ornaments

Kaylee's finished product

Brianne's finished ornaments

Since I don't have a kids tree this year we strung them up over one of the archways. Its fun to see them displayed all in a group.

Recipe and directions

2 c. of flour

1/2 c. salt

3/4 c. water

mix together and knead

then roll out and use cookie cutters for desired shape, poke a hole with a blunt pencil for the string to go through.

Place on a plate and microwave for 2-4 minutes. be sure to keep checking on them they will burn if you leave them in too long.

Let them cool and add paint, glitter and other embellishments. Like I said they do bubble so we found painting the side that had been against the plate was the easiest.

After the paint dries spray with an acrylic clear spay to add shine and preserve your ornament.