This is a simple, slightly messy but very aromatic craft that you could use for a Valentines Day craft with your kids. The smell is divine, all cinnamon and appley - and the feel of it is really gooey - just what kids love. Basically you make a type of clay from apple sauce and mega amounts of ground cinnamon.
Here's the receipe: 1 cup of applesauce to 3/4 of a cup of cinnamon. Make a dough. Too mushy - add more cinnamon; too dry - add more applesauce. 
When it gets the right consistency, you make shapes either with a cookie cutter, your fingers or for older kids a knife. They take about 2-3 days to dry depending on thickness. You could probably speed this process up by baking the shapes as if they were cookies. If you make a hole in the shape you can add ribbons and hang the ornament. Of course the shape of choice for Valentines Day will be .... the heart! Originally, this craft was done by a friend of mine for our kids to make Christmas ornaments - so you can also store this idea away for that!
Trust us, the kids will only try to eat this dough once, it is WAY too cinnamony for normal children to eat more than one taste.
We used a bowl to mix the ingredients in and wax paper to roll the dough out on wtih a rolling pin. If you make a hole (about pencil size) about half an inch (1.5cm) in from the edge it should be strong enough to put a ribbon through to hang.
If you feel like the ornament is too plain, you could always glue things onto it. If you want the ornament to smell even more, allspice, nutmeg and cloves could be added. Thanks to Bobbie for this craft!
Wishing you an aromatic Valentines Day!
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