Social distancing day 15: Easter ornaments

Today we made salt dough ornaments in spring and Easter shapes.  Wren is super excited about Easter and has been pestering almost non-stop about it for a month.  I have no idea why she is so excited.  I think it was fun for her last year to do an egg hunt?  IDK.  We a not a religious household and the Easter bunny doesn't bring all that much so...  Anyhow, she is excited so I thought I'd just go with it.  I decided to make one of those silly Easter trees (we still have to go find the perfect branches to stuff in a vase to hang the ornaments on - a great task for a walk on another day).

We started with making the salt dough (1 cup water, 1/2 cup salt, 1/2 cup water - mix/kneed).  The kids love to help measure and since it wasn't something anyone was going to eat, I let them be a little more helpful than when I make a cake or something more complicated.

I also let the kids help roll out the dough and use the cookie cutters (I pulled out all the cutters that seemed spring like and we used some circles to make eggs.  I just stretched the circles a little to make them ovals.  Don't forget to make holes to put a string though.  Then bake and wait to cool (2 hours at 250).

We then painted a couple of the ornaments.  I think it will take us a lot of rainy days to get these all painted.  An hour seems to be the max for a paint project but I really enjoyed it.