Salt Dough Recipe for Ornaments, Handprints, and Crafting
Salt dough is a fun craft to do with the kids! Mix up a batch of our salt dough recipe for making Christmas ornaments, keepsake handprints, or other salt dough crafts.
Servings: 30 ornaments
Equipment
- Glitter, paint, and ribbon for decoration
- Polyurethane spray for preservation
Ingredients
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup table salt
- 1 ½ cups warm water
Instructions
To Make Dough
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour and salt. Slowly stream in the water while stirring until it comes together. Finish mixing together with hands. Knead until dough is soft, about five minutes.
To Bake Ornaments
- Preheat oven to 200°F. Place half of the dough between two large pieces of parchment paper. Roll out until ⅛" thick. Remove the top sheet of parchment.
- Using cookie cutters, cut shapes (leaving them on the parchment). Peel away the excess dough. Transfer the parchment with shapes to a baking sheet.
- Using a straw or toothpick, poke a hole for ribbon or an ornament hanger. Bake in the preheated oven until hard, starting to check at the hour mark. It could take as much as two hours.
- Once cooled, decorate using glitter and paint. To make sure the ornaments last a long time (I have one from 30 years ago!), spray with a light coat of polyurethane spray. Thread on a ribbon and hang on tree.
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Notes
- This recipe was originally posted with an oven temp of 300°F. While we've made many batches at this temperature successfully, some of you had poor results with this higher temperature. So, we adjusted the recipe to use a lower oven temperature for a longer bake time.
