Recipe For Handprint Keepsake

With the recipe in the link we made our handprint keepsake plus 20 small cookie cutter ornaments which is probably equivalent to 3 or 4 handprint ornaments depending on the size you make them of course.

Recipe for handprint keepsake. Follow these steps to make salt dough ornaments. Not only is it fun for the child to play with the dough and later to decorate the handprint but you also end up with a very special keepsake. Combine all of your ingredients flour salt warm water and mix well until it starts to form a dough.

So if you dont need that much i would half the recipe. Roll out the dough and make the imprint roll out the dough on a flat surface so it s about 1 4 inch to 1 2 inch thick. Then pour in 1 cup of water adding a little at a time and mixing as you go.

The dough should be smooth and roll out with not too many bumps. Even though my daughter was. 2 cups sand 1 1 2 cups plain flour all purpose 1 cup warm water 1 1 4 cups salt mix together the sand flour and salt in a large bowl and slowly add the warm water mixing as you go with a large spoon.

How to make our sand clay recipe. For all of the details of this project as well as our simple baking soda clay recipe pop on over to cbc parents and check out our baking soda clay handprint keepsakes post. Take the dough out of the bowl and knead for at least 10 minutes.

Salt dough handprints are popular crafts for children and parents make together. Family cookbooks are an important way to preserve our mealtime traditions for future generations with individual printed recipes or. Add the water slowly as you may need less water than 1 cup you don t want your salt dough to go sticky but if it does just add more flour.

Knead for 15 minutes or use the dough hook on your stand mixer so easy. I used a tea saucer to cut out the circles for each hand print and we got 4 and had about half left over. Baby handprint ornaments can be a priceless keepsake and they re easy to make.