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November 7, 2020

Homemade Cinnamon Ornaments {only 2 ingredients!}

In today’s post: These 2-ingredient cinnamon ornaments are fun and easy for kids to make, and you’ll love the way they make your house smell!

Ok people, this here isn’t a new idea – cinnamon ornaments have been around for years – but if you haven’t tried making them yet you should. They’re easy to make and fairly inexpensive, so you can make new ones whenever you want, but they will also last from year to year. The best part is that they smell absolutely heavenly.

Homemade cinnamon ornament in the shape of a snowman hanging on a Christmas tree

This is one of those kid craft ideas that really is as fun and easy as it seems! They do take a while to bake, so plan to make them one day and decorate them the next.

6 cinnamon ornaments on a table: snowflake, star, stocking, tree, and gingerbread man shapes

Or leave them plain! The pretty cinnamon color doesn’t really need embellishing…but if your kids are anything like mine they’ll be anxious to go to town with the glitter glue 😉

Girl with homemade cinnamon ornament decorated with glitter glue.

Cinnamon Ornament Supplies

You’ll need equal parts cinnamon and applesauce for these ornaments. I used about 1 and 1/4 cup of each and we made 18 ornaments using standard size cookie cutters. When you’re buying cinnamon, look for larger containers of the cheap generic brands – no need to pay more for the name brand. If you happen to live near a WINCO you can get cinnamon in bulk extremely inexpensively. Generic applesauce works great as well!

VIDEO

Here’s a quick video that shows the whole process, and written instructions follow:

 

Recipe source: McCormick

How to Make Cinnamon Ornaments

Cinnamon ornament in the shape of a snowman hanging on a Christmas tree
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Cinnamon Ornaments

Homemade cinnamon ornaments take just 2 ingredients and are fun + easy to make - plus they smell so good!
Prep Time 30 minutes
Baking Time 2 hours 30 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Cinnamon
  • 1 cup Applesauce
  • Decorations optional

Instructions

  • Mix the cinnamon and applesauce together in a large bowl. You will need to use your hands to get them fully incorporated. When completely mixed the dough should have a stiff cookie dough consistency – you want to be able to form it into a ball that holds together quite easily without it being too sticky to work with. Add more cinnamon or applesauce if needed to get that consistency.
  • Next, roll out a third of the dough between two piece of plastic wrap to a 1/4 inch thickness. Don’t go thinner than 1/4 inch or the cinnamon ornaments will be too difficult to handle and easy to break. Remove the top layer of plastic wrap and cut out shapes using cookie cutters.
    Hand using cookies cutters to cut Christmas shapes from cinnamon applesauce dough
  • Move ornaments to a cookie sheet that is lined with a non-stick baking mat. If you don’t have a baking mat, place a cooling rack on top of your cookie sheet and place ornaments on that.
    Using a straw, poke a hole at the top of each ornament. If you’ve made smaller ornaments, you could also use a skewer or toothpick to poke a hole, ensuring it’s big enough that you’ll be able to thread twine through it.
    Straw poking a hole in unbaked cinnamon Christmas ornaments
  • Bake the ornaments at 200 degrees for about two and a half hours, until they feel dry and hard. This is when your house is going to really smell fantastic!
  • Once the ornaments are cool, you can start to decorate. We used puffy paint, glue and glitter, sticky backed gems, and a few other items from my craft stash.
    Cinnamon Christmas ornaments decorated with puffy paint and glitter
  • Thread twine through the hole at the top of each ornament and tie twine in a loop. Hang on the Christmas tree.
    Cinnamon ornament in the shape of a snowman hanging on a Christmas tree

Notes

You can make any size batch you'd like; just be sure to use the same amount of cinnamon as applesauce.

We made a bunch of ornaments, but this little snowman was everyone’s favorite:

Hand holding a cinnamon Christmas ornament in the shape of a snowman

My kids LOVED making these, and every time I walk past the tree I can smell the cinnamon. Since they are completely dried, it’s ok to pack these up at the end of the season with the other Christmas decoration until next year. They’re pretty sturdy (although if you try to snap one in half you’ll be able to) and should last for years.

Looking for more Christmas fun? Check out these posts:

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20 fun Christmas treats to make with your kids

Free paper snowflake templates and folding instructions

How to make a marshmallow snowman for your hot chocolate

25 handmade Christmas gifts people actually want

Collage photo: hands cutting ornaments from cinnamon dough, hand holding snowman ornament, cinnamon applesauce ornaments decorated with paint and glitter

 

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  1. Fintech Software Solutions says

    April 14, 2021 at 3:39 am

    4 stars
    I make these with my students in my classroom. We do not bake ours. We put them on cardboard with a straw or unsharpened pencils in them. As they dry the hole will not close up with the straw of unsharpened pencils still in them. It takes about two weeks for the ornaments to completely dry.

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  2. Steve says

    March 10, 2021 at 1:20 am

    5 stars
    Hello
    I also make it in my classroom with my students. We don’t bake our own. We put them on a cardboard with a straw or an unbleached pencil. My kids continued for more than 25 years until the sewage backup got to my jewelry boxes. Looking forward to the people who will make my grandchildren. !! My eldest son, now 34, when he was in the Cub Scouts when he was 8, we made them and we put them on our tree every year.

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  3. Lili says

    December 6, 2020 at 11:27 am

    5 stars
    Hola… genial idea… Podrían ser comestibles si no se decoran? o su sabor no es tan bueno como su olor?

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  4. Patricia Campolongo says

    November 22, 2020 at 6:34 pm

    I make these with my students in my classroom. We do not bake ours. We put them on cardboard with a straw or unsharpened pencils in them. As they dry the hole will not close up with the straw of unsharpened pencils still in them. It takes about two weeks for the ornaments to completely dry. In the meantime, my classroom is the envy of the entire school! Everyone comes down to see what we are doing to make the school smell so good! We give these out as presents to our administration team, general education classroom teachers, and parents. We also gave them as presents to our school board members, who thought they were the best present ever!

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  5. Stacy says

    December 22, 2018 at 7:22 pm

    I rolled it out onto the cookie sheet. that way there was no transferring.

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  6. Jeannie Oliverius says

    December 12, 2018 at 5:46 pm

    Add a little flour next time. I didn’t have this problem but I used Walmart generic applesauce.

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  7. Jeannie Oliverius says

    December 12, 2018 at 5:44 pm

    I didn’t have this problem at all.

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  8. Kim says

    December 4, 2018 at 4:02 pm

    I had to add more cinnamon to mine also…hmmm

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  9. Nana says

    November 14, 2018 at 7:30 pm

    Can I use a different spice, apple?, since cinnamon gives my son a headache?

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    • Jeannie Oliverius says

      December 12, 2018 at 5:43 pm

      There’s a recipe for dough using 4c flour, 1c salt, 1 1/2c water. You can then add instant coffee to get the color or leave “sugar cookie” color and decorate as you choose. If you add a few drops of glycerine, they hold up a little brtter.

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    • Marcy says

      December 5, 2020 at 6:59 pm

      5 stars
      May be cloves or nutmeg make a small batch and try it .seems any dry spice would work.

      Reply
  10. Betty Lee says

    November 14, 2018 at 7:04 pm

    We are doing these again this year!

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  11. Monica says

    November 14, 2018 at 12:06 pm

    If they lose some of the smell over the years, simply use sandpaper to lightly sand the back to bring it back. The ones my kids made lasted over 25 years, until a sewage backup got my ornament boxes. Looking forward to the ones my grabdkids will make!

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  12. Lori says

    November 11, 2018 at 10:19 am

    I made some of these 8 years ago this Christmas. Still have some left. The key is to store them in Tupperware to keep them “fresh” 🙂 and safe from being crushed.

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  13. Lynne says

    November 10, 2018 at 1:23 pm

    THANK YOU!!! I’ve been looking for this recipe for YEARS!!! My oldest son, who is now 34 made these when he was in Cub Scouts when he was 8 and we STILL put them on our tree EVERY year!!! I’ve wanted to make more but I could never find the recipe until now !!!! I cant wait to make some new cinnamon ornaments!!!

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