Christmas Ornament Dough Recipes for Christmas Crafts

Most of us remember crafting homemade Christmas ornaments as gifts for our parents and Grandparents out of craft dough when we were young. However, some of us have forgotten those old recipes to use now that we have children of our own. Included here are three of the best and most commonly used craft dough recipes for making homemade Christmas ornaments and gifts.

Salt dough Christmas ornaments, looking like plain Christmas cookies or cutout bread loaves, were well known to us as children. The recipe for salt dough is useful for a variety of craft dough modeling uses. Salt dough is perhaps the most fail-proof of the craft doughs for making Christmas ornaments and crafts.

Salt Bread Dough

¼ Cup Salt

½ Cup Boiling Water

1 Cup All-Purpose Flour

¼ Teaspoon Vegetable Oil

Food Coloring (optional)

Pour boiling water in a bowl and add salt. Add remaining ingredients. Knead dough to desired consistency for crafting. If coloring dough with food coloring, work it uniformly into the dough as you knead the craft dough. Keep slat dough wrapped in plastic when not in use.

Model Dough as desired. It may be helpful to keep a bowl of water nearby while crafting to smooth dough and attach pieces.

Bake at 300 degrees for 45 to 60 minutes. Ornaments will puff a little when baked.

Completed ornaments may be painted, or brush with beaten egg and water mixture prior to baking or a darkened, shiny appearance.

A benefit of making Christmas ornaments with salt dough is that it can be colored with food coloring when it is made, and so does not have to be painted when it is finished. On the other hand, if you enjoy painting your Christmas ornaments, salt craft dough can be made plain and painted when it is dry. Salt dough is easy to work with and makes a lot of inexpensive Christmas decorations.

When crafting your Christmas ornament from salt craft dough, you may choose to cut the craft dough with cookie cutters or go for a more personal keepsake Christmas decoration. This salt dough recipe works well for baking handprint keepsakes; make handprint plaques, or with little hands, make a handprint Christmas ornament that can hang from the tree.