Valentine Dough Ornaments

Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, love is not pompous, it is not inflated,

it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,

it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.

It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails.

1 Cor:13 4-8

This dough is about as easy, literally, as 1, 2, 3, and just about as inexpensive. Two really huge reasons why we love it so much at our house. It's really variable and can be used for as many seasonal decorative purposes as your imagination will allow. This year I wanted more Valentine color around our house... and these ornaments turned out to be exactly what I was looking for!

Dough Art

2 cups flour

1 cup table salt

1 cup water

• Blend the salt and flour together, then add the water a little at a time.

• Knead for 7 to 10 minutes until firm.

• Roll out dough, cut with cookie cutters or shape by hand...

• If you want to hang them remember to use a drinking straw to cut out a hole for string.

• Bake at 325 degrees for 35 to 60 minutes depending on size and thickness.

• WATCH CAREFULLY! If air bubbles occur poke with a needle

• Allow to cool on wire rack.

• Then paint as desired. I spray painted ours and then had my kids finish them off with red.

I hung them on the wall using the clay sticky thumb tack that you can find in the office section of most stores.

Happy Valentines Day...

Enjoy and Be Blessed!

Love, Jocelyn