Decorating the salt dough ornaments

***SPOILER ALERT – If the girls call you Mama or Nanny, please don’t read this post until after Christmas Day!!!***

We made salt dough ornaments a few weeks ago and today’s advent activity was to decorate them.
If you’d like to make your own salt dough ornaments, I’ve put the simple recipe below.

We painted the salt dough ornaments red and green then used glitter paint to add some sparkle. When the paint’s dry, we’re going to thread them using pipe cleaners and string them to make a garland.
Our original plan was to hang them on the tree but as KayCee quite rightly asked, ‘we have far too many decorations on the tree already, don’t we mum?’.

The girls have enjoyed the whole process, especially making the salt dough hand print paper weights for my mum (aka Mama!) and Ant’s mum (aka Nanny). They used the most glitter on these!

All we have to do now is wait for the glitter paint to dry (it’s probably going to take a few days with the amount we put on!) then wrap up and deliver them to the Grandmothers 🙂

It’s very easy to make your own salt dough. All you need is:

• 1 cupful of plain flour (about 250g)
• half a cupful of table salt (about 125g)
• half a cupful of water (about 125ml)

Mix the flour and salt in a large bowl. Add the water and stir until it comes together into a ball.

You can bake the salt dough in the oven on a low temperature for a few hours (the time will depend on how thick your ornaments are) or let them air dry.

We much prefer to air dry. It’s cheaper and more eco friendly 🙂