Dough Hand Print

You will need

• 2 cups of flour
• 1 cup salt
• 1 cup water
• Food coloring
• Ribbon
• Gold marker
• Wax paper

Method

1. Add food coloring to the water. I use pink for girls, blue for boys.
2. Mix all ingredients well, kneading until smooth. 
1. Dough should be pretty stiff, not soft or runny or it will fill with air bubbles when baking.
3. Form dough into a ball, of about what you can enclose in your two hands, and form into a round smooth ball.
4. Using a rolling pin with the dough on wax paper, roll out into as round of a circle as you can.
1.  Dough will be about 1.25 [1/2 inch] thick.
5. Press the hand with fingers splayed into the dough.  Make sure to press deep enough without going completely to the bottom. (When it bakes it tends to raise the hand print up.)
6. Put on a cookie sheet.
7. Use a chop stick or pencil, etc. to make two holes in the top about 1.5cm [1/2 inch] apart. 
1. These holes will be used to string the ribbon through.
8. Bake at 200 degrees for about 2-3 hours. 
1. Dough should be fairly hard but watch to see that it doesn't burn.
9. When they are done and cooled, use a gold marker pen and write the name and date (year). 
10.  Tie a ribbon at the top (blue or pink - or gold) to use as a loop to hang.

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