I am getting my Valentine’s decorations out finally. I decided this week to make his super cute table center piece. My table has been looking pretty bare since the Fall/Christmas holidays ended. I was in need of a center piece. Of course my little Chloe helped me put it together.

I was at Hobby Lobby the beginning of the week and spotted these twigs. They weren’t on sale, but I had a 40% off a regular price item coupon. I have the Hobby Lobby app on my phone, so it’s super convenient. No more leaving your coupons home on accident, and not getting a super good deal. When I spotted these twigs, I thought they would make a great center piece for my table. I have made salt dough before for Christmas ornaments, so why not make heart ornaments for Valentines day.

*You can purchase branches or if you find some great ones laying around outside that would be a great/frugal way to make your tree 🙂 Also you can cut the branches or twigs down to your liking

Items needed for craft

Branches-purchased in the floral section of Hobby Lobby or twigs from outside

twine, yarn or ribbon to string hearts on with

cutting device – to trim down branches: I used my husbands leatherman

vase or cute bucket to hold branches

sissors

salt dough

Salt dough recipe

1/2 cup of flour

1/4 cup of corn starch

1/4 cup of salt

4-5 Tablespoons of warm water

3 drops of red food coloring

Preheat you oven to 350 degrees. Mix together the flour, corn starch and salt together in a medium size bowl.

Next, add the water and food coloring to the flour mix. Add the water 1 Tablespoon at a time. Stirring after each tablespoon. Once it forms a good dough take it out and work it with your hands. This will help the food coloring to mix better.

Then take the dough and roll it out verily thin, but not too thin. (You don’t want your heart to burn when you cook them.) Then take your heart cookie cutter and cut out your hearts. ( just like cutting out sugar cookies)

Take a end of a pen and poke a hole in the top of each heart. This will be where you string your yarn or twine through to hang the hearts. Place the hearts on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for 20 minutes @ 350 degrees.

Once your hearts have cooled off , it’s time to string them to hang on the branches. Some of my hearts didn’t have a big enough hole for my twine. I used the tip of a steak knife and twisted it into the hole to make it larger. String the twine through the hole and tie a knot at the ends.