Together with your children, create Christmas decorations with salt dough to decorate the tree in an original way. They will have a lot of fun creating various characters and shapes, giving vent to all their creativity.
When you have of the free time to be able to spend with i own children, and Christmas is coming, you can take advantage of this available moment to accomplish something together. It’s a‘Great opportunity in fact, to be together and for let them play with creativity e to achieve chores with their hands, such as of Christmas decorations with salt dough.
The salt dough in fact is a material first of all a lot versatile and moldable like plasticine, but secondly, it is realized with simple ingredients that you always have at home and you can really prepare it in a few minutes. Together we’re going to see how to create several really simple Christmas decorations for your little ones to have fun with.
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How to create the salt dough
Before to occupy us of the different decorations with which you and your children can try their hand, we have to start from the basics, that is learn how to prepare the salt dough.
The doses for the salt dough I’m:
- 1 cup of salt
- 1 cup of water
- 2 cups of flour.
The process is very simple. Before sift the flour, to avoid the formation of annoying lumps, then pour all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well until you get a very smooth paste and moldable. Self However want to color the dough before creating your decorations instead of later, you can add to the dough of the food coloring and let the pasta rest.
Now the salt dough is ready and you just have to create and set your imagination in motion!
Decorations for the Christmas tree
Christmas tree it is generally only decorated with Christmas lights and balls, but this year could look different though along with the balls there will be also decorations made by you and your children. They may not be as perfect as shop-bought decorations, but isn’t that the beauty of objects made with your own hands ?!
The decorations for the tree that you can make with salt dough are so many because being a modeling dough, you can give it the shape you want without much effort. We give you several ideas from which you can take inspiration.
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You can ask the yours children to make their imprint with your hands so you can then hang many little hands on the tree of the house and each one will have its own personal one. Then once left to dry you can decorate as you prefer. For example the hand could become the face of a reindeer a little peculiar, so it will go painted brown dark, then with hot glue will apply a pompom for the nose and a ribbon for the his collar.
To create the different characters like the snowman or gingerbread men, or the classic Christmas tree, you can make them with the help of cookie cutters. Make a small hole on the top so that you can then hang them, let them dry in the sun or bake them in the oven and once ready, you can paint them with tempera colors. Let the colors dry is then you can insert the ribbon into the hole and hang your characters to the tree.
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Six your children I’m gods greedy, you might realize for example some donuts like the ones that Homer Simpson loves so much with lots of icing and colored sugars on top. Once cooked, just wrap the tape around the hole of the donut and hang them on the tree for a super greedy decoration!
Scented gingerbread men
In addition to all the characters and shapes that you can make with salt dough, you can create even gods nice gingerbread men so real that smell really of spices, as if they were biscuits, but be careful to taste them because we cannot guarantee that they are as good as those with butter!
To prepare the ginger men, but with the salt dough, just add to the ingredients described above for the base dough:
- 2 tablespoons of cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons of ginger
- brown food coloring.
To make the shape of the little man use the cookie cutter and before allowing the decoration to harden, make a hole in the top. Now that the little man has hardened, you can proceed with the final decoration touches. With a black marker you can draw eyes and smile, is then with hot glue go to apply three buttons to the character. Now the gingerbread man is ready to decorate your tree!
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Make DIY Christmas decorations with your children using salt dough to be prepared with simple ingredients such as water, flour and salt. Give the pasta any shape you want and decorate the Christmas tree with your decorations that will become more original and fun!
