Christmas decorations can be fun for young and old if you make them yourself. Involve the children in the design and you will achieve wonderful results. Salt dough is a suitable medium for making Christmas decorations. We'll show you some exciting ideas on how to make crafts from salt dough for Christmas.
These craft ideas will help you make cute Christmas decorations yourself and the best part is that you can use the ornaments for many years because they are very durable. Let's get to work!
Make your own Christmas decorations out of salt dough
You can use salt dough to make your own Christmas decorations that you will enjoy for a lifetime. This Christmas craft is easy to make and also suitable for children. Here's how to make your own salt dough Christmas ornaments:
What tools do you need to make a Christmas decoration from salt dough:
- Mixing bowl and large spoon
- Parchment paper
- A rolling pin
- cookie cutters
- Forks, rubber stamps, other textured items to add texture to the ornaments
- Straw or toothpick
- baking paper
- White spray paint – optional to create a unified background for the embellishments
- Glitter, glue, paint
- Ribbon for hanging the ornaments
How to make the ornaments:
- Lay out a large piece of parchment paper and place a large piece of dough in the center. Place another large piece of paper on top.
- Roll out the dough to a thickness of 3 mm. Ornaments that are too thick tend to splinter or break easily due to the resulting air pockets.
- Remove the top sheet of parchment paper and then use cookie cutters to cut out the dough. The cut out pieces should remain on the parchment paper.
- Use a straw to poke a hole in the top of each ornament to attach a ribbon for hanging.
- Use whatever you have on hand to structure the ornaments: forks, straws, rubber stamps, other cookie cutters, scissors.
- Then place the baking paper and the molds on a baking tray. Bake in a preheated oven at 150°C for about an hour. They are ready when they feel firm. Allow the ornaments to cool completely before moving on to the next step.
- You can also let the ornaments air dry, but this takes more time and effort. The drying process will likely take a few days depending on how thick the ornaments are.
- Now comes the really fun part – decorating! Before you begin decorating, spray all cooled ornaments with a thin coat of white spray paint. This helps to hide color imperfections. Once the spray paint is dry, you can paint with acrylic paints and brushes. Wherever you want glitter, you can use glitter glue.
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Making Santa Claus out of salt dough for Christmas
A very fun idea for a salt dough Santa. The children will definitely be thrilled.
What you need:
- Salt dough
- Parchment paper
- Colors
- Glitter
- Scissors
How to make Santa Claus from salt dough:
- Roll out the dough into an even layer on parchment paper. Then have your child trace their hand on the dough.
- Cut out the shape of the print and paint Santa as shown in the picture above. Paint the face and hat and add glitter to make the hat sparkle.
- You can let the cute Christmas craft air dry or bake it in the oven at 150°C. It's so easy to make crafts from salt dough for Christmas.
Make colorful garland from salt dough
What could be nicer than homemade Christmas garlands? Try this colorful garland and you will delight the whole family and impress your guests.
Materials required:
- Salt dough figures
- Cones
- Hemp or ribbons for threading.
Instructions for crafting:
- Arrange the colorful salt dough ornaments and cones to create the garland you like. Thread the individual parts.
- Hang the garland from a long ribbon and hang it in the stairwell, hallway or over the mantel where it can be seen by everyone. Enjoy your homemade jewelry!
Make personalized jewelry for Christmas
You can be beautifulSalt dough ornamentsMake for your loved ones on which you can write the names of your family members or nice wishes, such as: B. Merry Christmas, with love for mom and dad, etc. Stars or hearts are best.
What you need:
- Salt dough
- Parchment paper
- Colored pencils
- Glitter glue for labeling
- Scissors
DIY instructions:
- As usual, cut out the figures from a sheet of salt dough rolled out on parchment paper, then cut them out and paint them in the desired colors or spray them with white spray paint to make them look elegant.
- Write the desired messages on the figures.
- You can bake them or let them air dry.
