This recipe requires NO COOKING, takes mere minutes to mix up, and the ornaments will make your entire home smell just like Christmas! Read on for the easy tutorial.
Are you ready to make your own?
Cinnamon Ornament Recipe
Other Materials Needed
- Cookie cutters
- Wax paper
- Acrylic paints (optional)
Method
- Combine the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl.
- Then, add 3/4 cup of very warm water and mix well.
- Once combined remove the dough from the bowl, and knead it with clean, dry hands.
- If the dough is at all sticky dust your hands with flour and knead it into the dough.
- After a bit of mixing & kneading you will be left with amazing cinnamon ornament dough!
Give kids cookie cutters and rolling pins, and they will have a blast making their very own cinnamon ornaments.
A Few Tips for Making Cinnamon Ornaments
- I recommend rolling the cinnamon dough out on wax paper to prevent sticking.
- Be sure to pierce a hole in the ornaments before leaving them to dry. This makes stringing them onto the tree much easier! To do this we used a toothpick.
- It will take roughly 24 hours for the ornaments to dry.
- Once dry kids can embellish the ornaments using acrylic paint, or you can simply hang them from the tree as they are.
We made two batches of this easy ornament clay, and that allowed us to make roughly 20 ornaments. We hung some of them without painting them but most were painted by Rosie and Jewel the next day.
PRO TIPS:
- If kids are painting the ornaments you can add a touch of cinnamon to the paints to make the ornaments extra fragrant.
- I recommend using acrylic paint.
- If you are not painting the ornaments you can spray them with a clear finishing spray or use Mod Podge to return them to a deep brown color before hanging them on the tree.
MORE CHRISTMAS CRAFTS FOR KIDS
- Make Christmas play dough.
- Wow the kids and make a candy cane rainbow.
- Grow a candy cane.
- Make elf eggs.
- Make Christmas Slime!
- Craft Santa Claus.
- Make Christmas crafts using this collection of ideas.
