Simple Salt Dough Snowman Ornaments: DIY Christmas Gifts

Here’s a fun and simple activity to do with your kids: Salt dough ornaments.

My boys aren’t always into crafty things – but when they heard their cousins made and SOLD some of their ornaments, my boys were all in! They always love a way to earn money – right now they are saving up to buy a DOG! (This was their idea, not mine)

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The salt dough recipe is simple:

• 2 cups of flour
• 1 cup of salt
• 1 cup of water

• Mix with a wisk, and then your hands.
• Flour a surface, then roll out the dough until it’s about a quarter inch thick

• Cut into shapes

• Use a drinking straw to poke a hole at the top of the ornament for the string to go through

To make the Snowman Ornament:

• Use a cup to make circles
• Take a little piece of the dough and form it into the shape of a carrot
• Press the nose on top of the circle
• Press divots in the dough for the eyes and mouth. I used the bottom of a paint brush.

• Bake at 175 degrees for 3 hours.
• Let them sit for 1 hour.
• Paint with acrylic paint or water colors.

• Seal with Modge Podge.
• Tie a string through the hole.

• Hang on your tree, gift wrap, or sell.
  

The boys put their earnings in this jar and tied one of their dog bone salt dough ornaments around it!

Click here for another DIY one-of-kind Christmas ornament

Click here to read all about the dog they got for Christmas – and they used their earnings to buy him toys!

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Thanks for reading! Enjoy your holiday!