Cinnamon Christmas ornaments

I found a recipe online to make homemade Christmas ornaments.  These particular ornaments also claimed to double as wonderful air fresheners.  So Grace and I decided to try them out.  The recipe was simple and straightforward.  You take 1 cup of cinnamon, 1 cup of applesauce, and 2 tablespoons of Elmer's glue and mix it all together to form a dough.  Then you make or cut out your shapes and either set them out to dry overnight or bake at a low temperture in the oven until they harden.  If you're going to hang them as ornaments, be sure to make a hole at the top using a toothpick or pencil before they dry...

Grace and I had a delightful conversation while we made them.

"Yook, Momma!  I'm a took-ee man!"  (Look, Momma!  I'm a cookie man!)

Grace informed me that "Fayff yikes Trissmush trees." (Faith likes Christmas trees.) 

Indeed she does.

 "Tween-ee wants a straw."  (Queenie wants a straw.) 

I never realized how much candy canes resemble straws...

 "Momma, you want a bell!  Dran-da-ee yikes a bell, too!" 

(Momma, you want a bell!  Granddaddy likes a bell, too!)

"Dray-cee wants a star!"

(Gracie wants a star!)

"Dray-cee wants a Teen-cur-Bell, too!"

(Gracie wants a Tinkerbell, too!)

"And Mee-mee can have a Teen-cur-Bell yike me!"

(And Mammee can have a Tinkerbell like me!)

What should we give Chloe?

"Kuh-Low-ee needs a bell." 

(Chloe needs a bell.)

What does Stephen want?

"Stee-bin wans a spa-choo-lah!" 

(Stephen wants a spatula!)

You're probably right.  What about Luke?

"Yuke wans a spa-choo-lah, too!" 

(Luke wants a spatula, too!)

Okay.  What about Aunt Bethany?

"Bett-ann-ee wans a Stee-bin!" 

(Bethany wants a Stephen!)

What about Nanna?

"Mann-uh needs a straw!  Dran needs a straw, too!" 

(Nanna needs a straw!  Gran needs a straw, too!)

What does Pappy want?

"Pappy doesn't get eeny-fing!  He was on the naw-ee list!" 

(Pappy doesn't get anything!  He was on the naughty list!)

Well then.  What about Daddy?  Does Daddy get anything?

"Da-ee gets to pay wiff me!" 

(Daddy gets to play with me!)

As a side note, the ornaments really were very easy to make although I found them to be a little "goopy."  And our hands were slightly brown and sticky from cinnamon until we washed up.  This recipe was super simple and convenient since I had everything we needed in my pantry.  It also made two cookies sheets full of ornaments - more than enough for us.  And I must admit that they do smell rather enticing.  Our tree is hung close to our front door and I've had more than one person ask if I had recently baked a pie or something...  Our house smells like Christmas and there's no better smell that that.  And we couldn't have had a better time than baking them up together.