Christmas Salt Dough Ornaments

Description

Here are our favorite techniques to make Christmas salt dough ornaments. We used various cookie cutters, molds and patterns. You can make one of a kind ornaments using glitter, puff paint, acrylics and more.
See here for our Salt Dough Recipe

Christmas Salt Dough Ornaments Using Star Cookie Cutters

Make Salt Dough Star Ornaments

Materials

  • Star Cutters
  • Silver and Green Glitter
  • Glue for the Glitter
  • Water soluble non-toxic paint
  • White Foam or Puff Paint
  • Red and Green 3-D paint
  • Ribbon

Steps

  • Make Dough as Directed in the Salt Dough Recipe link provided above.
  • Using star cutters, cut out stars in various sizes.
  • Cut a few small stars inside of a larger one for variation and keep them to glue onto the larger stars.
  • Bake pieces as instructed. Keep pieces separate
  • When the dough is dried from baking, brush off excess flour and begin painting the each of the stars.
  • Let the paint dry completely.
  • Glue on small stars onto the larger ones using Elmer's white glue. Be generous with the glue, it will dry clear.
  • Allow to dry overnight if possible.
  • The next step is to paint the details on the stars with the white puff paint and the 3-D red and green.
  • Make polka dots or draw lines with Elmer's glue on the stars and sprinkle with glitter.
  • Tie on ribbon and they are ready for decorating your tree, wreath, windows or tie on a gift.

Christmas Salt Dough Ornaments Using Cookie Cutters and Copper Molds

Salt Dough Ornaments Using Cookie Cutters for Christmas.

Description

These Christmas salt dough ornaments are made with cookie cutters and copper molds to make interesting patterns on it.

Materials

  • Star Cutters
  • Silver and Green Glitter
  • Glue for the Glitter
  • Water soluble non-toxic paint
  • White Foam or Puff Paint
  • Red and Green 3-D paint
  • Satin Ribbon

Steps

For the photo above, here are the directions

  • Gingerbread Boy: Paint brown, and when dry use white puff paint to decorate.
  • Snowflake: Paint light blue and when dry rub with white crayon.
  • Christmas Tree: Paint green, use a crayon to color ornaments, then dot with white puff paint.
  • Christmas Tree: Blue background, green tree, yellow star, red and yellow ornaments and use Elmer's Glue to make dots and sprinkle with silver glitter.
  • Candy Canes: Yellow background and rub red crayon over the candy canes.
  • Teddy Bear: Wash over background with diluted green paint. When dry paint the bear brown, bow yellow, eyes white and mouth red.
  • Wrapped Gift: Pink background, red giftwrap, green and yellow bow, white puff paint and red puff paint beads around edge of cookie.
  • Cottage: Light green background, brown house and chimney red hearts, orange door. light grey roof and white puff paint for the snow.
  • Snowman: Paint background yellow. When dry paint snowman white, broom light brown for straw and dark brown for broom stick. Paint his hat, buttons, eyes and mouth black. Paint hat band green and nose orange. Use white puff paint for the snow on the ground.
  • Wreath: Green background, red ribbon, Elmer's glue on wreath then sprinkle with silver glitter. When dry use red puff paint to make red berries.
  • Partridge: This cookie is all paint: Light purple background, yellow bird, orange feathers on head red, brown branch and green leaves.
  • Bells: Pink background, grey bells, green bow with red stripe, red pattern on bells and red for the clappers.

Salt Dough Cottages

Description

These Christmas salt dough ornaments are made from a paper pattern we have below for you to print. These Christmas cottages can be humg as tree ornaments or makes a nice gift for the teacher.
Salt Dough Christmas Cottage Ornaments on tree

Materials

  • See here for our free printable Christmas Cottage Template
  • Silver and Green Glitter
  • Glue for the Glitter
  • Water soluble non-toxic paint
  • White Foam or Puff Paint
  • Red and Green 3-D paint
  • Ribbon

Steps

  • Make Dough as Directed in the Salt Dough Recipe link provided above.
  • Using the templates provided cut out the cottages.
  • Cut out several rectangles for the front doors, squares, triangles for windows and slim rectangles for shutters.
  • Cut out a skinny triangle for a tree or use small tree cookie cutter
  • Bake pieces as instructed.
  • When the dough is dried from baking, brush off excess flour and begin painting the cottage fromts and each of the small pieces.
  • Let the paint dry completely.
  • Glue on the windows, doors etc. using Elmer's white glue. Be generous with the glue, it will dry clear.
  • Allow to dry overnight if possible.
  • The next step is to paint the details on the window, doors and other areas with the white puff paint and the 3-D red and green.
  • Paint on the white puff paint for the snow. This was done twice to form a thicker layer of snow.
Salt Dough Christmas Cottage Ornaments with pattern.
Salt Dough Christmas Cottage Ornaments with pattern.