For this month's "craft with me" 12 months of Christmas ornaments series, we are making old-fashioned salt dough ornaments! 

You may have made these as a child or with your own, now-grown children in the late 1970s and 1980s when personalized salt dough ornaments were popular.

But salt dough dates back to ancient Egypt and was quite popular in Europe - particularly in Germany long before the 70s and 80s. The tradition of making these ornaments made its way to America with the German immigrants.

I'm putting a more modern spin on them by making mushroom ornaments from the dough!

Christmas in July - Salt Dough Mushroom Ornaments

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Here are the supplies you'll need and the 3-ingredient salt dough recipe:

As always, I have created a YouTube video tutorial as well as the written tutorial below the video 😊

Step 1 - Mix the dough

The recipe above will create approximately ten 3- to 4-inch ornaments. Double it if you'd like to make more.

Mix the flour, salt, and water together and knead the dough with your hands until it's thoroughly mixed. Let the dough rest for about 20 minutes.

TIP: You can prepare the dough beforehand and store it in a zip-lock bag.

Step 2 - Cut out the ornaments

Roll out the dough to a thickness of about 1/4 inch and cut out the ornaments.

If you do not have a mushroom cookie cutter, you can create a template with some scrap paper and cut around it.

The ornament on the left here is not smoothed out, the ornament on the right is.