steps
Prepare dough: inside a medium bowl, mix together 1 cup ground cinnamon and 1/4 cup applesauce utilizing a rubber spatula.
Stir in 1/2 cup craft glue. Stir the dough until consistency is smooth and dry. Let stand one hour. Applesauce provides the dough pliability, glue causes it to be firm, and cinnamon imparts an attractive scent along with a gingerbread color.
Come out one-quarter of dough onto a awesome, flat working surface flatten together with your hands.
Flatten having a moving pin to at least oneOr4 inch thick. If dough becomes too dry, spritz with water. Whether it stays with moving pin or work surface, sprinkle with a lot more cinnamon.
Photocopy bird templates onto cardstock (they are enlarged roughly 150 percent) cut them out, punching holes where indicated. Lay a template over dough eliminate shape having a utility knife (or use bird-formed cookie cutters). Repeat with every of three remaining quarters of dough.
Having a straw, poke an opening in dough as indicated on template (for hanging). Air-dry ornaments on the wire rack lined with sponges for twenty-four hrs, turning on them every 6 hrs approximately to ensure that they're flat. Alternatively, preheat oven to 200 levels. Transfer ornaments to some baking sheet bake, flipping once, until dry, a couple of hrs. When the dough has dried completely, decorate the wild birds with markings inspired naturally or perhaps your imagination. While you decorate, proceed in the finest embellishment towards the coarsest, adding glitter, then beads so as of size.
Utilizing a bottle by having an applicator tip, spread craft glue within the area you want to brighten.
While glue continues to be wet, sprinkle with glitter or beads, holding ornament on the bowl while you work tap off excess.
Wait for a first place to dry completely (a minimum of half an hour) before repeating steps 7 and eight on another section. Thread an overall length of ribbon through ornament's hole, trim the ends to avoid fraying, and knot. When you go ahead and take ornaments from the tree, store them, wrapped individually in tissue paper, inside a awesome, dry place.