Apple Cinnamon Ornaments are a kid-friendly Christmas ornament craft that uses just 2 ingredients and a few craft supplies. Apple sauce and cinnamon ornaments can be baked in the oven or air-fryer.
Homemade apple cinnamon ornaments use just 2 ingredients for the dough, plus string and puff paint for decoration. They can be used as ornaments on Christmas trees, as decoration for gifts, added to garlands, hung around the house, and even used as name place settings.
Apple cinnamon Christmas ornaments are the perfect kid-friendly craft. Kids can help with measuring, pouring, mixing, rolling, cutting (with a cookie cutter), and decorating the new ornaments. Let your little one show their creativity with fun new ornaments for the Christmas tree this year.
Apple sauce ornaments are also a very affordable craft that can be taken to class parties for kids to decorate. Make the ornaments prior to the class party and bring them in with puff paints for the kids to decorate. You could even host an ornament decorating party and use these. Use different shaped cookie cutters like a snowman, gingerbread men, Christmas trees, and more. Target has really nice cookie cutters for just $1.
How to Make Homemade Apple Cinnamon Ornaments
Now let’s get started on making your new ornaments.
THESE ARE NOT EDIBLE. They are used for decorations.
You are going to need:
- 1 cup applesauce (not chunky)
- 1 ½ cups ground cinnamon
- Cookie cutters
- White puff paint (or any color)
- Baker’s twine
- Hot Glue or Straw
- Rolling Pin
Here’s how to make cinnamon apple ornaments:
Preheat oven to 200 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
Combine apple sauce and cinnamon until a dough forms. You can use a stand mixer, hand mixer, or mix by hand.
You want a smooth dough to form that isn’t sticky. If your dough is sticky add more cinnamon or applesauce until the right consistency is formed.
Sprinkle your work surface with cinnamon. Place dough down and sprinkle dough with more cinnamon. Also, sprinkle cinnamon onto your rolling pin to prevent dough from sticking.
Using a rolling pin roll dough out to ¼“ thick.
Use your cookie cutters to cut your ornament shapes out of the apple cinnamon dough. Remove excess dough from around the ornament.
Use a regular-sized straw to cut a hole near the top of your ornament (this will be used to run your twine through later) or you can skip this step and instead hot glue your twine to your ornament.
Gently transfer your ornament dough onto a baking sheet. Make sure they aren’t touching.
Scraps of dough can be re-rolled to make additional ornaments.
Bake for about 1 1/2 – 2 hours or until dough is firm.
Let cool completely.
Decorate your ornaments with puff paint and let fully dry.
If you added a hole to your ornament, run twine through the hole and tie the two ends together with a knot.
If you didn’t add a hole, make a loop with your baker’s twine and hot glue it to the back of your ornament.
Ornaments can be hung around the house, on Christmas trees, attached to gifts, used as name place cards, or added to garlands.
Air-Fryer Apple Cinnamon Ornaments
If you want to skip the oven and make your cinnamon apple ornaments in the air-fryer you are going to follow the same steps as above, minus the oven portion. When it comes time to cook your ornaments you are going to:
Preheat your air fryer to 300.
Place a sheet of parchment paper in your air-fryer basket to line the bottom.
Place ornaments onto the parchment paper, not touching.
Air Fry your ornaments on 300 for 30 minutes or until completly dried out and firm.
Apple Cinnamon Ornaments
An easy homemade apple cinnamon ornaments recipe.
Ingredients
- 1 cup applesauce (not chunky)
- 1 ½ cups ground cinnamon
- Cookie cutters
- White puff paint (or any color)
- Baker’s twine
- Hot Glue or Straw
- Rolling Pin
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
- Combine apple sauce and cinnamon until a dough forms. You can use a stand mixer, hand mixer, or mix by hand. You want a smooth dough to form that isn’t sticky. If your dough is sticky add more cinnamon or applesauce until the right consistency is formed.
- Sprinkle your work surface with cinnamon. Place dough down and sprinkle dough with more cinnamon. Also sprinkle cinnamon onto your rolling pin to prevent dough from sticking.
- Using a rolling pin roll dough out to ¼“ thick.
- Use your cookie cutters to cut your ornament shapes out of the apple cinnamon dough. Remove excess dough from around the ornament.
- Use a regular sized straw to cut a hole near the top of your ornament (this will be used to run your twine through later) or you can skip this step and instead hot glue your twine to your ornament.
- Gently transfer your ornament dough onto a baking sheet. Make sure they aren’t touching.
- Scraps of dough can be re-rolled to make additional ornaments.
- Bake for about 1 1/2 – 2 hours or until dough is firm.
- Let cool completely.
- Decorate your ornaments with puff paint and let fully dry.
- If you added a hole to your ornament, run twine through the hole and tie the two ends together with a knot.
- If you didn’t add a hole, make a look with your bakers twine and hot glue it to the back of your ornament.
- Ornaments can be hung around the house, on Christmas trees, attached to gifts, used as name place cards, or added to garlands.
Air Fryer Instructions
- If you want to skip the oven and make your cinnamon apple ornaments in the air-fryer you are going to follow the same steps as above, minus the oven portion. When it comes time to cook your ornaments you are going to:
- Preheat your air fryer to 300.
- Place a sheet of parchment paper in your air-fryer basket to line the bottom.
- Place ornaments onto the parchment paper, not touching.
- Air Fry your ornaments on 300 for 30 minutes or until completely dried out and firm.
- Let cool and then decorate.