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When you get back if you are in the mood for a little St. Patrick's Day craft here is a cheap and easy one.  At the girls preschool they had used this recipe to make some Valentine ornaments and I had been wanting to try it for sometime. 

Clever Clovers

2 cups of Flour
2 cups of Salt
1 cup of Water

Mix the ingredients with a spoon until they look like this

Then use your hands to form into a ball

 

Add some drops of food coloring (if you make it all the same color, I would color the 1 cup of water)  My favorite food coloring is the neon colors - I used the lime green for these.

Color all you dough into different balls ( I could not resist and had to make one pink too)

Roll dough onto pan and cut directly on the pan so that you don't have to move it after it has been cut (trust me on this one) Using a straw cut the hole to hang on the ribbon.  I used a toothpick to add the stitched dots on the edge.

 

I even made some with pink hearts!
Bake at 250 degrees  - starting at 20 minute increments.  Depending on how thick you make them will determine how long you cook them.  These I baked for 40 minutes. 

Then get a nail file to file down the sides of any loose dough (this is the crazy perfectionist in me)

Use Modge Podge after it has cooled to make it a bit shine. ( I also made some with glitter that turned out great) 

I knew I wanted rainbow ribbon for these and could not believe I found it. (at Michael's)  but in case you don't you could buy the thin ribbon and string all the rainbow colors through. 

All my kids teachers will be getting these for St. Patrick's Day. 

I fear I may become a salt dough addict - it was so much fun!

Aloha
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Comments

[Katherine]

LOVE this idea. I may very well be trying it. I love the part about the nail file. I'm this way too. Thanks for the info.!

[Deb]

So cute! How many did one batch make?

[pink]

Deb - one batch made about 30 Shamrocks! let me know if you make them.
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[Liz Brown]

This sounds like so much fun! I think we will do this too!

[Deb]

Pink - thanks for responding...can I ask one more question? Do you think you could paint on these? If so what paint would you suggest? Would you paint after you bake them. Sorry...that was not just one question! I am a teacher and this would be a very fun project. We are going to make the shamrocks in the next week!!

[michelle]

Very clever to roll and cut out directly on the baking sheet!

[Hannah]

I think my girls (and a couple of their friends) neeed this next week.