You Pinspire Me
This week, my little guy and I made a birthday present for his daddy, but it would work great for Christmas gifts for grandparents, too!
I found the recipe here. The salt dough was super easy to make, especially with a stand mixer to do all of the kneeding for me while I cleaned up my kitchen! I rolled out the dough and initially made it too thick, so I had to start over again and make it thinner – I ended up using the dough rolled about 1/4″ thick.
Unfortunately, I missed the step that said “prick to prevent air bubbles.”. Sooo, when I looked into the oven part way through baking, my ornament was puffed up like a blowfish. I reached in and poked it with a fork and the bubble settled down. The end result was that the ornament was a little wrinkly and the handprint is less defined than it was prior to baking, so I will be sure to follow that step next time! However, I’m still pretty happy with the result! When I started being inspired by Pinterest Projects, I bought a can of spray-on gloss. I used it to finish the handprint ornament.
Making a handprint in dough with a 9 month old is so much easier than using paint – it’s ok if his hand moves a little bit, and it’s easy to push the hand down deeper into the dough so that the handprint is clearly defined – not so easy with paint!
Jenn vanOosten
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Adorable!! Now we’re going to have to make 4 of them…..
Ha! Did you notice on the recipe that they had the nutritional information? High in carbs & sodium, by the way. I don’t really plan on eating ours…