Baby It's Cooooold Outside!

[littlemissmuffet]

I'm seriously impressed ::. I thought this would be a one day project, but it seems to be turning into a one week project instead.

Wow! That's unreal. I have never had any issues. How thick are they? I roll my dough out to about 1/2 inch thickness before getting the kiddos to put their print in them. 5 hours baking is more than enough... I've never air-dried mine, I'd imagine that would take days for sure!

Keg: We don't paint ours. We leave them "dough colored" and then use clear glitter paint to paint the inside of the print to provide deifnition - I finish them off with a ribbon and jingle bell to hang on the tree.

[MyAngels]

Wow! That's unreal. I have never had any issues. How thick are they? I roll my dough out to about 1/2 inch thickness before getting the kiddos to put their print in them. 5 hours baking is more than enough... I've never air-dried mine, I'd imagine that would take days for sure!

Keg: We don't paint ours. We leave them "dough colored" and then use clear glitter paint to paint the inside of the print to provide deifnition - I finish them off with a ribbon and jingle bell to hang on the tree.

Actually they are not very thick at all, maybe 1/4" at the thickest part. I left them to dry all weekend on a rack and got them back out this afternoon to ready them for painting and they are still a bit soft in some places.

I had two kids that were out sick a couple of days last week, so I saved some of the dough and we made theirs on Friday. I baked those for four hours or so and they are completely dry and hard, so maybe my dough was too moist in the beginning.

We will be painting them tomorrow, whether they are dry or not .

[Crazy8]

can I get the recipe you guys use for these??? I haven't had luck with many dough recipes before.

[MyAngels]

I used 1 cup of flour, one cup of salt and approximately 1/2 cup of water, but as you can see mine took forever to dry, so maybe use a bit less water .

[sahm2three]

I have never made these before, and loved the ideas I saw here. We made ours today and I baked them at 200 degrees for at least three hours, but they are not completely hardened. Will they continue to harden out of the oven, or should I bake them some more?

Thanks!

I seem to be the only one not to know what you are talking about. Was there a pic I can't see? I must have missed something. What did you make?

[littlemissmuffet]

can I get the recipe you guys use for these??? I haven't had luck with many dough recipes before.

Mine's 1 cup salt, 2 cups flour and 1 cup luke warm water, Mix salt and flour, gradually add in water. Kneed for 3 minutes. Bake @ 200 for 1-6 hours depending on size/thickness of project, before painting.

[MN Mom]

I just finished baking mine and here is what I did --

1 C flour
1/2 C salt
1/2 C water

Thoroughly mix salt and flour. Add water (mine was body temp), mix well. Knead till smooth and elastic. First cut outs I rolled aprox 1/8" thickness, 2nd cut outs were aprox 1/16" thick. Baked @ 250 for 2 hours, flipping them over half way.

They are almost cooled now, and we will paint them shortly. I only have fabric paint on hand, however, my google search resulted in people who use fabric paint in lieu of acrylic paint as fabric paint is just acrylic paint with an additive mixed in to make it flexible. We will see if the paint works....I don't want to drive 20miles to town just for special paint