Salt Dough Handprint Ornaments

This is one craft you’ll cherish for a lifetime. You’ll have proof that your babies were once this small when you capture their tiny handprints and footprints in this salt dough. Love these holiday handprints, but looking for more memories to make? Try these Pasta Angels, or build your very own Gingerbread House!

Easy DIY ornaments: Santa, Snow Man, Mitten, Christmas Tree and Reindeer

Items List

For the dough:

1 cup salt
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup water

To hang the DIY Ornaments:

Ribbon or string

Instructions

Make your DIY Ornaments:

Combine salt and flour; add water a little at a time. Mix.
Knead until a smooth dough forms.
Roll out dough to ½-inch thickness. Cut into circles or other shapes.
Make your handprint/footprint. Be sure to wash your hands and feet when you’re done! Flour is a raw ingredient. Learn more about Consumer Food Safety and handling raw flour.
Poke a hole in the top for the ribbon. Don’t forget this step, because you won’t be able to do it after it bakes!
Bake at 200°F for 3 or more hours until dried all the way through.
Let cool for a few hours before painting.
Paint your favorite decoration.
Put the ribbon through the hole in the top to make an ornament.

VOILA! A cute addition to your holiday ornament collection!

You might also like these Easter Salt Dough Ornaments or our Salt Dough Beads.

Instructions

Step 1 of

Combine salt and flour; add water a little at a time. Mix.
Knead until a smooth dough forms.
Roll out dough to ½-inch thickness. Cut into circles or other shapes.
Make your handprint/footprint. Be sure to wash your hands and feet when you’re done! Flour is a raw ingredient. Learn more about Consumer Food Safety and handling raw flour.
Poke a hole in the top for the ribbon. Don’t forget this step, because you won’t be able to do it after it bakes!
Bake at 200°F for 3 or more hours until dried all the way through.
Let cool for a few hours before painting.
Paint your favorite decoration.
Put the ribbon through the hole in the top to make an ornament.
You might also like these Easter Salt Dough Ornaments or our Salt Dough Beads.