🎨 Salt Dough Ornament
I thought I'd share with you our easy peasy salt dough recipe!
Ingredients
- 2 cups plain flour
- 1 cup salt
- 1 cup of water
Instructions
Step 1: Mix the Dough
Combine all the ingredients together until you get a dough. If it's too sticky add a bit more flour, if it's too dry add a little bit more water.
Step 2: Shape Your Ornaments
On a floured worktop roll out your dough, use cookie cutters to make your shapes or you can press hands to make prints.
💡 Important:
Make sure you add a hole before baking - this is for when you need to string up your decoration.
Step 3: Add Personal Touches
We use fondant icing letter stamps to make names and dates on our salt dough ornaments.
Step 4: Baking
Once you've made your decorations, place them onto a lined baking tray into a preheated oven at 150°C and bake for 2-2:40 hours.
🔥 Baking Tips:
- They should turn a golden colour when thoroughly dried out
- If you tap the bottom they should sound hollow
Step 5: Cooling & Painting
Leave to cool - we left ours overnight. Once cooled you can paint. We found acrylic works best.
You can also add details using a marker pen or glitter.
Step 6: Sealing
Once finished we recommend to seal using PVA glue or Mod Podge. You need to seal both sides leaving to dry overnight each side.
Step 7: Final Touch
Final step is to attach string, ribbon or twine to ornament ready for hanging.
🎉 Share Your Creations!
We hope you have lots of fun! Don't forget to share if you make your own and tag us so we can see your beautiful decorations!