Recipe - 23.
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup salt
- 1 cup water
- Acrylic paints and paintbrushes
To make the dough - combine the flour, salt, and water in a mixing bowl. Mix well and then knead the dough until it is smooth and rubbery (adding more flour is too wet, more water if you dry)... You can make cool Christmas tree ornaments using cookie cutters - roll out the dough 1/8 inch think, cut-out two cookies for each ornament - put a paper clip at the top of one cookie - wet the dough and then put the other cookie on top. Use your finger dipped in a little more water to seal the edges. You can make all kinds of ornaments, let you imagination go. The only helpful hint is to keep the ornaments as "thin" as possible so they don't weigh down the branches of your tree. You can also use this dough to make people, snowmen, all kinds of things - and not just for Christmas - any holiday or special occasion is a good excuse to "roll in the dough".
When you are ready to bake your artwork, cover a cookie sheet with foil, preheat oven to 275F degrees, arrange the pieces so that they don't touch - (this dough doesn't raise, so how they look when you put them in the oven is just how they will look when they come out) - Bake 1 hour - then remove from oven and set aside until they are cool. Paint with acrylic paints, and when you are happy with the results - finish them off with a coating of varnish.
Unbaked dough will last about a week in the refrigerator. (I just bake the remaining dough and feed it to the squirrels.