Recipe for dough to make Christmas decorations?

[chonky]

Does anyone have a recipe for playdough to use to make Christmas decs please? It needs to be a recipe for dough that dries, so that I can then spray them.

Hi Chonky. I've got one but I need to do the school run. Can I type it in when I get back? I think you bake it.

This is one that you bake in the oven

225g/8ox/2cups plain flour
2 teaspoons cooking oil
100g/4oz/0.5 cup of salt
100ml/4floz/0.5 cup of water

Preheat oven to GM4/180c/350f
Put all ingredients in a bowl and mix into a dough with your hands! Can be messy!! Add a little more water if necessary. Knead for about 10 minutes, roll out flat, about 5mm thick. Cut out with biscuit cutters and place on a baking tray - make a hole in the top for hanging cord (use a kebab skewer or similar).
Bake for 20 minutes.
Remove to a wire rack to cool.
When cool, add paint, glue, glitter and one preschooler. I spray painted them silver/gold before decorating so that any blank bits look OK.

We're in the middle of this project at the moment!
I was "in charge" of colouring the dough with various food colourings so we had reds, pinks, blues, orange, marble effect etc etc ! All that hard work and they're going to paint them!
I found a straw excellent for making the holes.
Also found they "rose" slightly in the oven - but adds nicely to the 3D effect.
Was wondering tho - after painting both sides and glittering both sides - is there a need to varnish?
(Painting side 1's tonight!)

I had problems with them rising too. this recipe rose less than the one I tried before but maybe I kneaded it more, I don't know.

Not sure about varnishing - I think it seals them and protects them from moisture getting in. I didn't bother with the lot I made and they were Ok I think.

I'm back but the domestic goddess Soupy has beaten me to it. Hope they turn out well Chonky.

Only because I'd posted it a fe weeks ago so didn't have to find it or type it out again

I think I might make some this year too. Oh, and those glitter glue pens are great for little children to use on something like this - less mess and loose glitter!

Thanks for posting this!

Thanks you arty crafty types - should keep dd & I busy this afternoon (well mainly me )

TOP TIP
Don't let them slide off tray from great height onto concrete floor.
They break
But on a positive note - this amount of mix makes tons! so we had plenty left to paint

That sounds great . I've had it up to here ^ with papier mache this week! Looking forward to trying this over the weekend.

Just had another thought for a use for this dough, making kid foot/hand-prints, rather than paying out for posh John Lewis sets at £60 a piece. Dunno if it'd work, but I can't see why not?

What kind of paint would you use for this?

Well first attempt was using a set of unopened poster paints - but these had all dried up - so got pack of 4 "ready mix" paints (from ToysRUs but ELC do too) red, yellow, blue, green...and as i didn't have a white and we're painting DS's bedroom at the moment, used some "normal" but slightly watered down white emulsion. We had fun mixing colours together. Found finger paints didn't work at all.

What about spray paint (the sort you get at B&Q for spraying metal)?