Making Halloween Dough Ornaments!

I made these dough ornaments several years back for one of our first Christmas Trees! (Before the Children!) I remembered how cute they were and that they are still around ~ Hard as ROCKS and as of yet, unharmed in any way! All I did was use a simple recipe and at the time some Christmas Cookie Cutters. I got to thinking that I had some Halloween Cookie Cutters, and that Creston would probably really like to make these with me! I was right!! ((I'll list the recipe below!))


Dough Ornaments

2 Cups Flour (I used all purpose)
2 Cups Salt (I didn't have enough table salt, so I used pickeling salt!)
1 Cup Water
a pencil or pen...something to poke a hole in the ornament with (to hang it by)
paints to decorate the ornaments with, string to hang them with, glitter, ect.


1. Get your recipe and all of your ingredients together!
2. Mix the flour, salt, and water to make the dough.

3. Knead it for about 10 minutes.

4. Roll out the dough...

...and cut it with the cookie cutters.

5. Put the cookies on a cookie sheet and bake them at 225 degrees for about 2-3 hours (flip them every 30 minutes so they bake evenly. Poke the holes in the cookies BEFORE baking!

6. When they are done, let them cool completely before decorating. Then......DECORATE THEM!!!

These cookies will last forever!!!!! The salt preserves them. The ones that I made several years ago have held up and haven't molded or turned any funky colors!!!

Hope that you enjoyed this "cooking" lesson!!!

There will be more to come soon!!!