What you need:

• 1.5 cups ground cinnamon
• 1 cup applesauce
• 1/4 cup white school glue (like Elmer's)

What you do:

1. Mix cinnamon, applesauce and glue together in a bowl. The dough should be as thick as cookie dough. Add a bit of water if the dough is too stiff.
2. Remove from bowl and knead. Put it back in the bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and let sit for at least a half hour.
3. Remove the dough, knead again to make sure it's smooth. Flatten/roll the dough between waxed paper until it's between 1/4" and 1/8" thick.
   (I found that the thicker ones dried and kept their shape better)
4. Cut out desired shapes, use a straw to punch a hole for the ribbon to hang. The circle of dough will pull out with the straw.
5. Gently place the shapes on a non-stick cookie sheet. Put in low oven to dry, turning often.
6. We didn't wait several days for them to dry. I put them in the oven at about 200-225 and turned them every half hour. Just be careful that they don't burn.
7. Hang with yarn or ribbon. When dried, I used the clear thin glue you can buy in a long clear glue tube (for school kids) and then sprinkled with glitter.
   
   Pat says,
   "My son loved doing them. They turn out really nice, you can't make a mistake pouring glitter onto a glue shape and the kids feel very successful. And, of course, the smell is great."
   Happy Crafting!
   Pat
   

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Do you want to have Christmas parties but don't know what to do? This is an edible sleigh from best-selling and award winning author Wilhelminia Ripple who teaches you how easy it is to plan your party. It is excerpted from her book, "Christmas Parties...What I Do. Simply pull the crackers and candy canes apart to eat Santa and his sleigh. See this craft as well as a Christmas interview with the author.

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