DIY Christmas: Salt Dough Hand Prints Ornaments

We made hand print ornaments out of salt dough! These make fantastic homemade personalised gifts for friends and family.

To make the salt dough, we used:
1 cup of salt
1 cup of plain flour
1/4 cup of water (maybe more, maybe less)

This was enough to make the two hand print ornaments. And all you do is mix it all together to form a dough, knead for a little while so the dough is smooth. I then split it in half and roll out into two rough circles, using a little dusting of flour. I rolled until the dough was approx 1/2" thick.

Tristan and Scarlett used their hand to make a imprint in the salt dough (don't forget to create a hole for the ribbon using a pencil), then we gently transferred the salt dough onto a silicon covered baking tray, and baked slowly for 3 hours at 100 degrees C.

Ours seemed to take longer (another hour longer) so check back at 3 hours and see how "wet" the dough still is. If it is still soft and damp, pop back into the oven for 30 minutes, then check again. Also, if the oven is too hot, the dough may rise, so keep it low.

We left it to dry on the windowsill for an additional 24 hours before painting!

We chose to paint the outside red, leaving the hand print colour-less but glued on lots of glitter!

I then used a black Sharpie pen to write their names and month! It just needs a pretty ribbon, and voila! A fabulous present for Nanny and Grampy....but shhhh, don't tell them!