Cinnamon Salt Dough Handprint Ornaments

You could easily make a new one every year and have a nice memento for the christmas tree you can compare to.

Cinnamon salt dough handprint ornaments. To hang them up later you also need to poke a hole before heating. We love creating handprint and footprint art and christmas is the perfect excuse for doing a few extra crafts. One of our favorite kid craft projects in our house especially around the holidays is homemade salt dough. Using a straw or skewer punch a hole at the top of the ornament.

In a nutshell you need to make different balls of dough add in the cinnamon roll out the balls and cut leaf shapes. Cinnamon salt dough ornament fingerprint gingerbread. Pour cinnamon in a bowl and gradually add applesauce and stir until mixture forms a stiff dough. Then roll out the dough to 1 4 inch thick.

Cut out the dough into shapes using cookie cutters. Trace a 3 inch heart or 4 inch child s handprint on a piece of cardboard. Cut out shapes with cookie cutters. Keep rolling out the small scraps of dough and make ornaments until the dough is all gone.

So if you want to get into the christmas spirit make some gorgeous handmade ornaments and what a fantastic sensory craft for kids. Using a toothpick make a hole somewhere on the ornament so it can be hung. Discard or prepare center cutouts as ornaments dry as directed in. The best ideas for traditions come naturally and one that happened naturally for us was making these cinnamon salt dough ornaments.

We love salt dough ornaments take a look at our adorable and ever growing collection of handmade christmas ornament crafts or our equally adorable collection of keepsake craft ideas. Bake at 200 f on a parchment lined baking pan. Using extra cinnamon as flour roll out the dough to 1 8 to 1 4 inch thick. Click here to see all our christmas ornament craft ideas for kids.

Oh my if you haven t given cinnamon salt dough a go you simply have to. My kid loves making salt dough ornaments handprints and other sculptures and i love that i almost always have the supplies on hand to mix up this salt dough recipe. Use as a pattern to cut out dough. You will love our fingerprint christmas tree ornament santa handprint ornament and our star photo frame ornaments.

Salt dough handprint ornaments. Hopefully you will find many more keepsake crafts to have a go at. To make autumn salt dough you ll need 1 cup plain flour 1 cup salt 1 cup warm water food coloring in yellow orange and red 1 tsp nutmeg 1 tbsp cinnamon. Using 1 1 2 inch heart shaped or round cookie cutter cut out center of each large heart or handprint.

We love making salt dough ornaments at christmas time take a look at all our salt dough ornaments they make such cute keepsakes to bring out year after year. We have always seen salt dough handprint ornaments before and thought they were a really nice way to make a memory of your little one s hand to cherish on the christmas tree. Prepare scented cinnamon ornaments dough as directed. Cinammon salt dough is great for both diy cinnamon salt dough ornaments and cinnamon playdough.

The tradition started years ago when one december i took a. Combine all ingredients roll into a ball of dough.