Yesterday a friend posted on Facebook that she would be making applesauce ornaments with her boys. My ears immediately perked up and I ran to Google because I had never heard of those. Turns out you can make yummy smelling Christmas ornaments with cinnamon, applesauce, and glue. Who knew? Guess what Campbell and I will be doing this week?
I am in search of fun holiday traditions to start with the girls. So, please share with me what you did as a child, have done with your children, or will do with your children to celebrate the holidays...especially crafty, fun activities!
Oh, and here is the recipe for the applesauce ornaments from allfreecrafts.com (check back next week for pictures of the process and end product!):
Craft Supplies:
Cinnamon
Apple Sauce
Craft Glue
Cookie Cutters (cut by hand if you like)
Ribbon
Toothpick
Craft Project Instructions:
Mix equal amounts of apple sauce and cinnamon and add 1 teaspoon of craft glue for every cup of applesauce.
Editor's Note:
From reader comments, it seems using equal amounts of apple sauce and cinnamon sometimes results in wet dough. This depends on how watery your apple sauce is, so begin with one cup of apple sauce and one teaspoon of white glue, plus one cup of cinnamon - but also realize that you may need to add more cinnamon, in one-third cup increments, until the dough is of workable consistency.
Mix all the ingredients until you have a firm but wet dough. If you like you can substitute small amounts of cinnamon for a little nutmeg or ground cloves.
Roll out your dough to at least 1/4 inch thickness (less than this will make your ornaments a little weak and they break easily) and cut shapes with cookie cutters.
With a toothpick, poke a hole at the top of each ornament that is large enough for a ribbon to be pulled through. Place ornaments on a cooling rack or tray to dry completely. Depending on how large your ornaments are, drying could take a couple of days; it's best not to touch your ornaments during this time.
Once your ornaments are dry and if there are a few rough edges, you can easily remove the roughness with a little fine sandpaper. Sand your ornaments gently, as it doesn't take much to remove the little edges.
Tie a ribbon through the hole and, if you like, you can paint these ornaments or add a little glitter. Be sure not to cover the entire ornament with paint or the wonderful scent will be lost.
2 comments:
We started making the Wilton Gingerbread House the year my oldest was a baby and it has become one of our favorite traditions. The boys love to help out by putting the candy on it and look forward to decorating it each year. Another cute craft we have done before is the hand/footprint angel. The "body" of the angel is an upside down sky blue footprint and the "wings" are light yellow handprints sprinkled with gold glitter. You can add a head and halo at the top and use it to talk about the angels in the Christmas story. Happy Crafting! If you have any questions, you can email me (honeybee@aol.com).
My mom made a gingerbread house every (from scratch), it was so fun, we crushed lifesavers and melted them in the windows for stained glass, used upside down sugarcones with green frosting as trees and decorated them, sliced almonds for shingles, candy canes for a fence. The house smelt like gingerbread and we loved it. She would put a light on the inside and keep it lit up.
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