How to Make Homemade Clay for Making Ornaments
Here is that recipe for homemade clay that you played with (and probably ate!) when you were a kid. It is still just as much fun to play with and use to create your own elaborate ornaments with as it was back then.
- Difficulty:
- Easy
Instructions
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Mix 4 c. flour, 1 c. salt, some food coloring and enough water to moisten.
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Mix the ingredients, adding water until you have the desired consistency. The clay should be stiff but still hold together when rolled into a ball.
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Store in refrigerator to avoid spoiling until you are ready to create your own Christmas tree ornaments.
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Cut the clay with cookie cutters or a sharp knife. Or mold it into a variety of shapes - anything from vegetables to motorcycles.
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Dry the objects after they have been shaped by baking in the oven at 200 degrees F for about 10 minutes. They can then be painted.
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Tips & Warnings
This clay dries hard and can be painted or decorated with markers or pens.
Remember to add a loop of wire or ribbon to hang your ornament on the tree.
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Comments
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I put 2 and half cups of flour and 2 cups of salt and I also add some stuff to make them smell like Christmas. They are turned out great they are hard and ready to be painted my my son. I did not put the food coloring in them because if you are going to paint them you do not need the food coloring.
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need to double the salt and add lil cornstarch should come out rock hard.
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zardox
Jan 06, 2011
The recipe is wrong - the ratio of flour to salt should be no less than 2:1 Increase the salt and the dough will bake rock hard. -
Cutiekaddie80
Dec 13, 2008
I made this recipe today with my son and his friends. The ornaments would not get hard. I baked them for probably an hour and still NOTHING. They were so excited to be making them that I finally just gave up and let them paint them...I do not know what I did wrong here????
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Cutiekaddie80
Dec 13, 2008
I made this recipe today with my son and his friends. The ornaments would not get hard. I baked them for probably an hour and still NOTHING. They were so excited to be making them that I finally just gave up and let them paint them...I do not know what I did wrong here????
