I’m about to share with you our favorite Christmas craft! I hope you are here because you want to learn How to Make Salt Dough Christmas Ornaments. They are a simple craft and a lot of fun to make with your kids.

Salt Dough Ornaments Clay Recipe

First, you need salt (of course), water, flour, acrylic paint, and cookie cutters. Other options include glitter, permanent markers, polyurethane spray, or any type of embellishment you can think of.

This recipe is one of the Best Salt Dough Ornament recipes I’ve used. We have ornaments that are nearly 10 years old and they are still in great condition.

What you Can Make with Salt Dough Ornaments

We mostly use cookie cutters to make our ornaments. We have lots of cookie cutters in our house for baking and for this craft. Cookie cutters make super cute ornaments, and they look awesome when you add your own paint and other embellishments.

You can also make handprint ornaments & family thumbprint ornaments with Salt Dough Clay.

Different Embellishment Ideas

Use stamps to stamp letters or cute designs into the salt dough clay before you cook it. Lay a stencil over the ornament and paint a design. Carve designs into the soft dough with a pointy object. Use permanent markers to draw your creations.

How to Preserve Salt Dough Christmas Ornaments

I use spray Polyurethane on our ornaments. It gives them a nice shine and will preserve them for the future.

Supplies

• 1 C Salt
• 2 C All-Purpose Flour (not self-rising)
• 1 C Water
• Christmas cookie cutters
• Cookie sheet(s)
• straw or toothpick
• spray polyurethane

Directions

• Preheat oven 250 F
• Add ingredients to a bowl and mix well. 
• Refrigerate dough for one hour.
• Roll dough out on a covered surface to ¼ inch thick.
• Use cookie cutters to cut out shapes.
• Place shapes on a cookie sheet.
• Gather excess dough and roll to ¼ inch thick to make more ornaments
• Repeat until all dough is used.
• If you are stamping your dough, do it now, before you cook the ornaments.
• ***Make holes using a straw or toothpick*****
• Bake in the oven for 2-3 hours at 250F. Checking after 2 hours to see if they’re ready.
• Let ornaments cool, then paint, glitter, add embellishments, whatever your creativity can come up with!
• When paint dries, spray with polyurethane spray for a clear and lasting finish.

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