Salt Dough Ornaments

Posted by Nicole Carney on Dec 17, 2013 in Christmas Activities, Salt Dough Crafts, Winter Activities | 0 comments

After making these handprint mitten ornaments, we had some salt dough left over to make some glittery snowmen and snowflakes.

Materials:

1 cup of salt
2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup water
mixing bols
parchment paper
rollin pin
Christmas cookie cutters (we used a snowman cookie cutter and our snowflake pancake pan)
white Elmer’s Glue
glitter (silver, red and green)
buttons
black acrylic paint
orange pom-pom (or orange acrylic paint)

Making Snowman and Snowflake Salt Dough Ornaments

Mix the salt, flour and water in a bowl, and knead well. You may need to add a tad bit more water if your dough is too dry.

Roll out the dough and cut out fun shapes using your cookie cutters. Don’t forget to poke a hole through with a straw for hanging. Bake the ornaments in a 250° preheated oven for about 3 hours.

For the snowmen, I spread white glue only where I wanted certain colours of the glitter to go. M is sprinkling silver glitter over the snowman.

It doesn’t matter if your kiddos pepper the entire ornament in glitter; you can just shake off the excess and move on :).

Next, I put on some more glue and the boys sprinkled red glitter onto the ornament for the snowman’s scarf and hat brim.

Then, green glitter for the top hat…

And finally, they added on some buttons.

I dotted on some eyes using black acrylic paint and, because I didn’t have any orange acrylic paint on hand, I snipped off a piece of an orange pom-pom and rolled it between my fingers to create a carrot nose.

Once one side was complete and dry, the boys flipped them over and we began the process all over again! Tie a ribbon through the hole, and that’s it!

I think they turned out pretty great!

For the snowflakes, my bugs pressed the salt dough into our snowflake pancake pan to make a snowflake impression. We baked them, along with our snowmen, in a 250° preheated oven for about 3 hours. Then the boys painted them using some leftover glitter paint from our handprint mitten ornaments. Once the paint dried, I put some glue in the snowflake indentation and my bugs sprinkled silver glitter on top.