These are fun and easy Christmas Ornaments to make, made using salt dough. You can leave them plain, add some essential oils to give a festive scent, or paint them with acrylic paints – the choice is yours. I used Kiki Reva Kani Cookie Cutters* to give a NZ festive look.
1 cup plain flour
1 cup salt
1/2 cup water
Combine the ingredients in a bowl and knead until well mixed. The dough should not be sticky but you can roll it out on a lightly floured surface just in case.
Roll out to about 5mm and cut with your favourite cookie cutters*.
Place the shapes onto an ungreased oven tray and use a straw to poke holes to hang the ornaments.
Bake at 120C for 2-3 hours (or just let dry for a couple of days). I turned them over after a couple of hours to make sure the underside dried out too.
When cool, thread pieces of ribbon through the holes and decorate as/if you see fit.
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- Mix ingredients together in a bowl
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- Roll out dough to about 5mm thick
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- Use cookie cutters to cut out your favourite shapes
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- Lay shapes on an ungreased oven tray
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- Use a straw to punch holes for hanging
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- Bake at 120C for 2-3 hours
You can add a few drops of your favourite essential oil blend to each shape when you hang them. Make up your oil blend into a small bottle and have it ready to apply. Here are a couple that you might like:
Christmas tree: 3 drops Fir, 2 drops Cedarwood, 1 drop Juniper
Christmas cookies: 3 drops Ginger, 2 drops Clove, 1 drop Cinnamon
Christmas Carols: 2 drops Sandalwood, 1 drop Cedarwood, 1 drop Cypress, 1 drop Myrrh
* Kiki Reva Kani Cookie Cutters are made by the Rauawaawa Kaumatua Charitable Trust to help kaumatua (Māori elders) with dementia, to engage in cooking therapy that promotes, Te Ao Māori, cultural heritage and whakapapa in a social and fun way. Cooking therapy stimulates smell, taste and touch senses in dementia patients which can bring back memories from decades ago.
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