Thursday, December 2, 2010

Christmas fun with the kids

This is the first year that I made ornaments with the kids. Well, two of the kids. Kadence is still a little to young. It is a great creative project and the ornaments won't fall apart like those paper ones they make in school. I got the recipe from Martha Stewart, but tweeked it a bit to my liking.

1/2 cup cinnamon
1/2 cup applesauce
1 cup white glue
water in a spritzer bottle

Mix the cinnamon and applesauce until mixed well, then stir in the white glue. Mixture will appear dry but stick together when pinched. Let sit for an hour. Dump mixture onto table and start kneeding together. Spritz water on the dough to help form it into a smooth ball that resembles the consistency of sugar cookie dough. Sprinkle cinnamon on the table before you roll it out so it doesn't stick and then roll it out and before cutting your shapes out sprinkle with cinnamon. (Make sure you don't spritz to much water on it, you don't want it to be "wet")
Once you cut out shapes lay them out on a paper towel and with a straw cut the hole to hang the ornament from. Let dry. Frequently turn the shapes over or else they will curl up.

*Forgive my slightly blurry photos. I am in need of a new lens, the one I am using is broken.




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