Are you trying to find easy, fun crafts to maintain your kids occupied? With this article I will reveal to you learning to make homemade Christmas decorations using dough, an excellent inexpensive craft your kids can do in the holiday season.
I will even demonstrate a spot where you can find other cool what to keep kids of all ages crafty and engaged throughout the holidays in addition to more ideas for Christmas ornament crafts for the kids.
You'll find that enough time spent creating your specific holiday creations will probably be wisely spent and another being admired.
To make these homemade Christmas decorations you will need:
4 cups of white flour
1/2 cup of salt
1 cup of water
Food coloring (optional)
Cookie cutters (optional)
1/4 cup ground cinnamon or even a few drops of mint extract (optional)
For decorating your ornaments you will need:
Ribbon, pipe cleaners or fishing line Acrylic brushes and paints Glitter, Stickers, Felt pens, Stamps, Etc. Non toxic paint sealer
Mix all the dry ingredients together in the bowl, you can add the couple drops of food coloring to the water.
Add water on the dry ingredients.
You may choose to mix up a number of batches of various colored dough, or you can omit the food coloring and merely decorate your ornaments later with acrylic paints. If you choose to add cinnamon for a dry mixture, then this will just be your ornaments smell wonderful!
If your dough mixture feels too sticky, just include a small bit more flour. Knead the dough until it really is smooth and stiff. Use a rolling pin to flatten your dough to about a eighth of an inch but no more than half an inch, otherwise they will probably be heavy if you are considering hanging them on your tree.
Once the texture is sweet and smooth, make use of cookie cutters to cut out different shapes. You can also shape the dough into a kind of your personal, which makes them cool 3D decorations.
Here is how to make a candy cane decoration the kids prefer to make:
We mix up 2 batches of dough, you are red and you are plain. They flatten out your dough and remove two long strips from each batch then intertwine the 2 strips to create candy cane decorations. To the plain batch we add a couple of drops of mint in order to make sure they are fragrant.
Depending on how big your decorations are, you can use a pen or straw to produce a small hole near the top of everyone of your creations. Then place them with a baking sheet, and bake them inside the oven at a low setting (150-200) degrees approximately an hour.
After your decorations have baked, remove them in the oven. Once they have cooled completely, the fun part begins!
Pull the stickers, felt markers, paints, glitter, dried flowers and anything else you can imagine, and start decorating. Get those creativity flowing!
When you are all finished decorating, allow paint dry for a few hours, then seal all of them with a coat of clear non toxic sealant.
When your ornaments have dried, string a ribbon, pipe cleaner or fishing line through the top and tie a knot. You can also use metal ornament hangers in case you have extras.
Hang your homemade Christmas decorations in the Christmas tree, wreath, swag or anyplace you want!
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