I squeezed in a quick craft with the kids a couple of days ago. We made ornaments with cinnamon dough. They make your house smell so lovely and festive! There are lots of recipes out there if you search the web. Basically, you use cinnamon, applesauce and white glue. You can roll the dough between sheets of wax paper and cut it with cookie cutters, or you can just shape it. We made some balls and threaded ribbon through them. Mostly we used the cookie cutters though because the kids had more fun choosing them! The kids are giving these ornaments away as Christmas gifts, except for the two chosen for our tree above.
Great idea! I wanted to do some Christmasy fun with the kids this week and in the process we can use up some of last year's applesauce that didn't turn out so good.
ReplyDeleteI remember making those ornaments with my kids. They smelled wonderful and made great teacher gifts. I wonder if teenagers would want to give it a try again (just for old time sake). Thanks for reminding me of happy days.
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