4 Ingredient Salt Dough Ornaments

Salt dough ornaments with your Thermomix® Appliance are perfect craft project to do with the kids for Easter! Create egg-shaped DIY decorations and brighten up the kid's rooms or give as presents to friends or family.

It's time to get creative!

Ingredients:

• 500g plain flour
• 300g cooking salt
• 400g warm water
• Clear Spray Varnish Finish

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 120°C.
• Place flour, salt and water in Mixing Bowl and mix for 15 sec/Speed 4.
• Knead the dough for 10 min/Dough function.
• Roll out the dough to around 3-5mm or the thickness that you'd like your salt dough ornament to be.
• Use Cookie Cutters and other fun shapes to cut out different shapes for your salt dough ornament.
• For a handprint design in a Salt Dough Ornament, have your child place their hand into the salt dough ornament. If the dough is too hard to get an imprint it may be too dry and you can continue to knead by adding in a little bit more water.
• Using a straw, make a hole in the top for where you want to hang your salt dough ornament.
• Bake for 1-2 hours. If your ornaments are still doughy, put back in for another hour. (It will depend on your thickness how long you need to bake for. The thinner ornaments will take less time but thicker may take more).
• If you encounter too much puffing, roll out thinner ornaments and this will help reduce the puffing. If the ornament is still a bit doughy, bake for longer or let sit out a few days to harden before decorating.  The thickness of the dough will determine how long you have to bake them for. You can also raise the temperature up to 160°C but do this gradually as they may start to puff up. We prefer to bake them at 120°C for longer and let them air dry for a few days.
• Once cool, you can decorate by painting with acrylic or kids paint.
• To make the hand glittery, fill the handprint with glue then sprinkle glitter on top of the glue, shake off the excess and let it dry.
• Spray with a clear varnish finish to seal.

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