I'm so excited to finally be able to share all the homemade Christmas gifts L and I made this year! These did not turn out at all how I imagined. I originally saw the idea on someone's Facebook post, but it only linked to a picture. So I thought I could just recreate it, I was wrong. Although it doesn't look like the original idea I still love it.
I still would love to know how they made this one!
Here is how I made mine:
You will need:
Flour
Salt
Water
Paint if you so chose
Gloss Modge Podge
I mixed up my salt dough using 2 cups of flour, 1 cup of salt, and 1 cup of water. I ended up adding another 1/2 cup of flour since it was so sticky. I ended up splitting the batch into three equal sections and putting two in a Ziploc bag in the fridge. This seemed to firm it up a bit too.
I pulled a smaller section from the one I was working with. I rolled it out onto a floured surface and worked in some more flour into the dough. I rolled it about 1/4 inch thick (probably should have made it a bit thicker) into a circle. I placed the circle on a plate so L would have a firm surface to press his hand into the dough and it was easy to move from his highchair to the counter.
Once I had his handprint in the dough I cut it out using a butter knife. Since the dough was still fairly sticky this was not that easy and I had to round out the edges of his fingers by hand. After getting two handprints out of him I knew I was not getting anymore. So I decided to trace the original handprint on card stock and cut out the rest from that.
Once I had my template I cut out about 8 more handprints.
I used a Pyrex bowl and sprayed the outside with Pam before laying his first handprint in the middle of the bowl. I then went around the bowl pushing the handprints into the middle and each other. Two of the handprints the fingers got stretched out for whatever reason and another the dog apparently wanted to eat two fingers off of so I had to reattach those. I smoothed out the bottom using my finger and some water to make sure the joints would hold. I preheated the oven to 200. I then placed the bowl on a cookie sheet (I have yet to full get the stains off but it is actually clean) and baked it for 2 hours.
I let it cool on the bowl for about 15 minutes then took it off the bowl and let it fully cool on a plate.
The handprint in the middle is my favorite part! I just applied Modge Podge gloss to the whole thing but it could be painted with regular acrylic paint and then a gloss applied to it if you like. Again it doesn't look like the original idea, but I still like it.
Let me know your thoughts, ideas, if you have a question, etc. Thanks for stopping by!
Linked at:
| http://www.the-chicken-chick.com |
| http://www.dwellings-theheartofyourhome.com/2014/12/amaze-me-monday-91.html |
| http://itssoverycheri.com/2014/12/28/party-time-12-28-2014/ |
| http://diyshowoff.com/2014/12/28/diy-party-33/ |
| http://www.create-with-joy.com/2014/12/inspire-me-monday-week-156.html |
| http://www.keepingitsimplecrafts.com/ |
| http://www.flourmewithlove.com/2014/12/mix-it-up-monday_28.html |
