Being this is the first year I’ve been a stay at home mom, and it’s winter, I of course started scouting out ideas on things to do in the home that don’t involve much effort or money. Naturally I went to doing crafts. I love doing them, my daughter loves doing crafty things with me. It also lets them be more creative, keeps them busy and they learn by doing. Cutting, gluing, coloring, measuring, mixing, painting, it all counts!
My favorite so far has been salt dough ornaments. They are super easy to make. In most cases, people have the ingredients already in their cabinet. If not, it’s roughly $2-$3 for all of the ingredients, and you’d have plenty left over for more fun later.
Original pin can be found here.
Original pin can be found here.
Salt Dough ornament-Ingredients:
1-cup plain white Flour
1/2-cup table salt
1/2-cup lukewarm water
1. Mix all ingredients together in a bowl. Kneed (squish as our LO calls it) together with a spoon or your hands. I found it mixed better with my hands.
NOTE: it helps to put flour on your hands to keep the dough from sticking too much when mixing. Also, I had to add a little extra water(about 1 tablespoon) to the dough when mixing.
NOTE: it helps to put flour on your hands to keep the dough from sticking too much when mixing. Also, I had to add a little extra water(about 1 tablespoon) to the dough when mixing.
2. Once everything is mixed well, sprinkle some flour on a flat, hard, clean surface and roll out the dough with a rolling pin(if you don’t have a rolling pin use a sturdy smooth round glass or cup.)
3. You can use cookie cutters to cut out shapes or do a hand print or foot print. We did both cookie cutter and hand print.
4. Once you have your ornaments cut out you can let them sit out for a little while to get firm and dry up a little before pressing a hole for the ribbon so they can hang. Pick a spot on the ornament, using a pencil, poke one side of the ornament not quite all the way through, then the other side poking all the way through. You can push the pencil through AFTER the second time to make the hole more round.
5. Let the ornaments sit to dry up flipping occasionally. It could take a few days to dry up. Or you can bake them at 250 degrees for 2.5-3hrs flipping every 30min or so.
6. Once everything is dried up you can paint the ornaments, glue decorations to them, or leave them plain. Use pipe-cleaners, ribbon, shoe lace, twine, or yarn to hang your awesome decoration keepsakes. These are great for inexpensive Christmas gifts for the grandparents or other family members and friends.
ENJOY!
ENJOY!
Try these other great Christmas/holiday/winter crafts from other pinners!!
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