Last week I was feeling particularly festive and so Florence and I decided we’d make some Christmas decorations. Christmas is just over 5 weeks away and I know time will whizz by once we get into December. I’ll be well into my second trimester come December and I really want to be organised to avoid the stress of last minute preparations. I thought I’d share our ‘how to make salt dough Christmas decorations’ recipe with you all as it’s such a fun, easy and cheap craft to do, especially on these chilly winter days.
Salt dough Christmas decorations
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Ingredients
- 175g Plain Flour
- 175G Salt
- 1 Cup of water (adjust amount depending on mixture)
- A straw
- For decoration:
- Christmas shaped cutters, paints, glitter, PVA glue
Instructions
- Pre-heat your oven to 100 degrees Celsius
- Place dry ingredients into a large mixing bowl
- Add small amounts of water until the dough holds together but isn't too sticky
- Roll out dough on lightly floured surface
- Use cutter to cut out shapes
- Use a straw to create a small hole in the top of each decoration to allow for some coloured curling ribbon to be used to hang the decoration up
- Place shapes on to a baking tray with some greaseproof paper and bake in the oven for 2-3hrs (turn shapes halfway through if they are quite thick)
- Allow decorations to cool and paint with coloured paints. Once dry you can use glitter or sequins to embellish and paint a layer of PVA glue over them to seal.
- Add some pretty, metallic curling ribbon and you're all set to hang your creations on the tree!
Oh what a fantastic idea this is and so personal and unique, I love it x
What a brilliant idea. I want to try and do this if not this year then definately next (when the girls are a bit older). Thanks for sharing.
These are a great idea, we have done some salt dough recently but I have done something wrong as they went a bit bubbly and soft in the oven. will have to give it another go as these look fab!
Oh these look amazing- I am definitely going to make some with Pickle! Kaz x