Saturday, February 9, 2013

Valentine Heart Garlands

A sweet Valentine craft from one of my favorite bloggers (legit, unlike myself. She actually has followers): Yummy Mummy. We made a batch of salt dough and went to town. Fair warning: glitter will be everywhere. Everywhere! But it's well worth it.
 
Simple Salt Dough Recipe
 
2 cups all purpose white flour
1 cup salt
3/4 to 1 cup water
 
Preheat oven to 200 degrees F.
 
Stir flour and salt together in a medium bowl. Stir in water until mixture comes together, adding a little more water if it is still too crumbly. Knead until smooth.

Roll out and cut into shapes using cookie cutters and place on a cookie sheet. Use a small dowel (a small paintbrush works nicely) to poke holes where you would like to hang the shapes. I found 2 holes worked best for hearts so they would face forward rather than sideways. Bake 20 minutes, flipping once half-way through.

Allow shapes to cool and then paint and glitter them, draw on them with markers, etc.

For the garland:
Thread twine or ribbon through the holes in the ornaments and hang up!

1 comment:

Anne said...

CUTE idea!!! My mom made gingerbread rocking horses at Christmas time years ago and she still hangs them on the windows every year!!! :)