Birdsnake Loves the Holiday Season: October 2014

Thursday, October 16, 2014

USPS Letters to Santa Program

Did you know that you can adopt a letter to Santa? I think our mattress store should do this!

You can see more on the USPS Letters to Santa Page

Salt Cookie Dough Ornaments for the Holiday Season

Last year we did dough ornaments for our holiday tree. It was super easy and fun. We did some adult themed ornaments as well as the traditional Christmas stuff. I will dig up some photos later but for now I'll just tell you how to make them and show you a random photo from the internet... Update: Here's a link to a photo of our ornaments

Preheat your oven to 250 degrees F

4 Cups All Purpose Flour
1 Cup Salt
1 1/2 Cups Warm Water

In a large mixing bowl the mix flour and salt. Slowly add the water and stir it in with a spoon. Once all the water is in use your hands to knead the dough until it's nice and soft.

Roll out the dough to about 1/8 inch thick... Now use cookie cutters for traditional holiday shapes or do like we did and use a butter knife to cut custom shapes. Use a toothpick to poke a hole so that you can add a string or wire for hanging on the tree.

Bake at 250F until they are rock hard... about 1 hour 20 minutes. (For puffier shapes bake at 325F for about an hour... If you do the puffy ones use a chopstick instead of the toothpick so that the hanger holes don't puff closed.)

Now let them cool off and then paint / glitter / mod-podge / whatever. We used acrylic paint with glitter and they turned out awesome. Update: I forgot to mention that once everything was painted and glittered I used a light coat of acrylic sealer.

Have fun :-)