Making the Salt Dough
1. In a medium sized mixing bowl, combine the flour and salt until well whisked. In a glass measuring cup, stir in the water and food coloring or paint.
Making the Salt Dough
2. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and slowly pour in the colored water, starting with half the amount and adding more as needed to form a firm dough that is moist but not sticky. Stir well.
Making the Salt Dough
3. While wearing the surgical gloves, knead the dough with your hands for approximately 10 minutes (on top of the parchment paper), or until the dough has become smooth and the color is distributed throughout.
Making the Salt Dough Ornaments
1. Use a rolling pin to roll the dough into a 1/8-inch thickness on the parchment paper. Use whatever shaped cookie cutters you’d like to cut out the dough.
Making the Salt Dough Ornaments
2. Additionally, you can stamp the dough with various items to create texture or with ABC stamps to personalize the ornaments with someone's initials, last name, or year.
Making the Salt Dough Ornaments
3. Combine any scraps that are leftover and knead, then re-roll with the rolling pin and cut out additional ornaments. Repeat until all of the dough has been used.
Making the Salt Dough Ornaments
3. Combine any scraps that are leftover and knead, then re-roll with the rolling pin and cut out additional ornaments. Repeat until all of the dough has been used.
Making the Salt Dough Ornaments
5. Use the straw to cut a small hole near the top (where you’d like to hang the ornament from). Discard the small circular piece of dough that you remove to create the hole.