Making Time for What Matters Most

At Once A Month Meals, we are all about making time for what matters most using freezer cooking.

Our goal is to help you make meal plans with delicious and freezable recipes ahead of time, so you have more time in your life for what matters most to you. Can we get an amen?!

We all want to spend less time cooking and feeding our family, and more time actually spent WITH our family.

Therefore, in the spirit of enabling you more time with your family through our freezer cooking membership, we want to help make suggestions on how you can enjoy that extra time!

Homemade Handprint Ornaments

These adorable ornaments have evolved over the years and thanks to awesome idea sites like Pinterest we keep getting more creative each year! It means so much to family and friends to receive a heart-felt, homemade gift from kids (or even pets), so check out these creative ideas or feel free to add your own and let us know what they are, we love hearing from you! These also make a great homemade handprint keepsake!

You can also make these for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Grandparent’s Day, Christmas, Teacher Appreciation and so much more!  Everyone will love receiving your homemade handprint ornaments as a gift this year!

 

Ingredients:

• 1 cup flour
• 1/4 cup salt
• 7 tbsp water
• Round cookie cutter (I used a drinking glass instead)
• 1 drinking straw
• Craft paint
• Ribbon

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 300°F.
2. Mix together flour, salt, and water.
3. Knead for 15 minutes (or use the dough hook on your stand mixer – so easy!).
4. Roll out the dough to no more than 1/4-inch thick, then use the cookie cutter (or glass) to make rounds.
5. Press the child’s hand into the dough. (TIP: If you’re doing this with really little ones, you may have to go back and make deeper impressions of their hands with your fingers or a kitchen utensil–the deeper the impression, the better your ornaments will turn out!)
6. Use a straw to poke a hole in each ornament (this is where the ribbon will go later).
7. Place on a baking sheet and bake for 40-45 minutes, until golden.
8. Wait for ornaments to cool, then paint as desired and thread a ribbon through each straw hole to create ornament hangers.

Servings:

1 batch will yield approximately 6-8 ornaments.

Adapted from this recipe.

If you enjoyed this homemade, heartfelt gift, you might also enjoy this one! It’s for our furry friends! As a staff we love the furry members of our OAMM family as much as our human ones! We have both feline and canine varieties and through the years have had reptiles as well! Check out this post about making dog bones to give as a gift or to surprise your own beloved companion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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