These enticing COOKIE CUTTER CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS are easy to make using our 3-Ingredient white clay dough recipe. A generous sprinkling of glitter makes them look much like sugared Christmas cookies.
We’ve used our favourite 3-Ingredient White Clay Dough recipe to make a batch of “Christmas Cookie” ornaments for our Christmas tree.
Stays sensible white as quickly as dry…
This 3-ingredient clay dough recipe is my favourite for do-it-yourself ornaments. It’s easy to make, and it stays white and sensible when it dries.
We’ve used this dough to make Valentine’s ornaments and Fall ornaments, and the toddlers made these cookie cutter ornaments embellished with buttons and beads just some years prior to now at Christmas.
Within the current day I was crafting with my oldest daycare youngsters, and we used Christmas cookie cutters and glitter to make our ornaments appear as if sugar-coated Christmas cookies. (Check out our cardboard sugar cookie ornaments too!)
Glittering the ornaments was the highlight of the day in spite of everything. These youngsters love glitter.
A tip for mess-free glitter…
If you’re not a fan of glitter your self, don’t concern. When your ornaments have dried, you’ll give them a clear coat of varnish to hold all that pretty glitter in place.
Yield: One batch of clay dough yields 26-28 ornaments when using standard-size cookie cutters.
Parts:
- 1 cup baking soda
- 1/2 cup corn starch
- 3/4 cup of warmth water
Additional Devices & Instruments:
- rolling pin and cookie cutters
- consuming straw
- cookie sheet
- glue and paintbrush
- glitter
- ribbon or metallic thread
Instructions for Making Clay Dough Ornaments
Making the Dough:
- Add the baking soda, corn starch and water to a pot and place over medium heat.
- Stir repeatedly as bubbles form and the mix thickens.
- When the water has evaporated and the dough resembles thick cake frosting, take away pot from the heat.
- Allow dough to sit back for a few minutes, and swap it to the countertop to knead it proper right into a clear clay.
Slicing and Adorning your Ornaments:
Skilled Tip: It’s a superb suggestion to protect your desk excessive with a vinyl desk materials or to work on plastic lowering mats.
- Roll dough to 1/4 inch thick, and decrease shapes with assorted cookie cutters.
- With a consuming straw, poke a niche throughout the excessive of each ornament.
- Swap ornaments to a cookie sheet or cooling rack, and allow to dry completely sooner than adorning. We depart ours to dry by the hearth in a single day. You can dry them throughout the oven on the bottom temperature, nevertheless I’d go away the door open a crack so it’s not too scorching. If you’re drying at room temperature, I’d go away them for a full 24 hours.
- As quickly as dry, brush the doorway of each ornament with a generous amount of glue. You want a superb thick layer so the glitter will really keep.
- Sooner than glittering, place the ornaments on a cookie sheet to catch any unfastened glitter.
- Sprinkle a generous amount of glitter all through your ornaments. We combined colours to current our ornaments a bit of additional depth and curiosity.
- Depart the ornaments on the cookie sheet until the glue is dry.
- Spray the doorway of your ornaments with clear varnish to seal the glitter to the ornament. I exploit Krylon clear varnish, nevertheless any clear craft varnish will do.
- Thread some ribbon or wire by the outlet, and protected with a knot.
Aren’t they enticing?
I like one of the best ways the glitter sparkles throughout the daylight in the middle of the day, and shimmers by the sunshine of the tree at night.
Jackie is a mom, partner, dwelling daycare provider, and the creative spirit behind Glad Hooligans. She focuses on youngsters’ crafts and actions, easy recipes, and parenting. She began operating a weblog in 2011, and proper this second, Glad Hooligans conjures up larger than 2 million mom and father, caregivers and Early Years Professionals throughout the globe.
