This week for our craft group we had a Christmas craft party! The kids made macaroni
ornaments, decorated picture frames, and pressed their hand prints into salt-dough ornaments.
1) Salt-dough ornaments: Salt-dough is like a homemade modeling clay. A simple salt-dough recipe:
Knead for 15-20 min. Roll out to 1/4" to 1/8" thickness and cut into desired shapes, poke holes into dough to avoid air bubbles. The salt dough was cut into circles big enough for the kids hands to fit into. Then a hole was made at the top so ribbon could be threaded through later. After the kids made their hand prints in the dough, we baked the dough for 20 minutes at 300 *F. After the hand prints cooled Mercedes and I painted them, we may also spray them with a sealant or gloss.
4 cups flour
1 cup salt
1 1/2 cup water
2) Foil and Macaroni Ornaments: I cutout cardboard circles, taped looped yarn to them, and covered the circles in foil. The kids glued macaroni pieces on and Mercedes later painted hers with some glitter.
3) Picture frame ornaments: Gluing four Popsicle sticks together in a square shape and backing with card stock was how we made these simple pictures frames. Then the kids could decorate as desired. They ended up being more ornaments than picture frames since the kids put stickers and things all over where the picture would go. But you can see an example I made in the picture.
