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Make Christmas ornaments using a simple salt dough recipe

Here is a simple salt dough recipe for making all kinds of Christmas ornaments.

In a special way prepared salt dough can be the basis for a number of interesting Christmas ornaments that can decorate your home or add an extra spark in the eyes of visitors.

Lets start with ingridients needed to prepare the perfect salt dough

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Rock salt or sea salt?

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Natural rock salt

MORTON SALT COMPANY #4458 50LB XCOR Rock Salt

MORTON SALT COMPANY #4458 50LB XCOR Rock Salt

Amazon Price: $8.95 (as of 06/04/2012)Buy Now

This is probably the cheapest rock salt that can be found on Amazon. This will do just fine if you want to use salt dough to create "non-eatable" ornaments. Otherwise I suggest you use better quality rock salt, such as Himalayan salt shown below.

Himalayan rock salt

HINT
If you are doing this for the first time it will be better to prepare the smaller amount of dough and create fewer less complex products such as cut-out decorations for the Christmas tree, hearts, snowflakes and stars.

Things you should be carefull about

If the mass of salt dough is too soft, add some more flour. However, when the dough is too dry, add water - but be carefull not to add too much water becouse this will soften the dough too much.

Once you remove the salt dough from the oven, let it rest for 15 minutes. Now, you don't want the dough to dry too much before you start with creations so you should wrap it into plastic sheet of foil or you could just use a freezing bag for the same purpose and effect.

Can salt dough be colored?

Colored Salt dough

Sure! Dried salt dough can be painted with tempera or acrylic paints, and it can also be lacquered. If you want to improvise with the original salt dough recipe you can do this easily just by adding acrylic paint or water tempera together with basic ingridients and knead the dough before putting it into oven. You could even decorate it with cloves - imagine this!

There are many interesting ways how to make and design salt dough...all you need to do is BE CREATIVE!

Use some acrylic paint to make salt dough more appealing

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Amazing things you can make with salt dough

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Will you be making salt dough this Christmas using my recipe?

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  • ottoblotto Apr 2, 2012 @ 2:24 pm | delete
    We used to make this when I was a child - great lens!
  • JJNW Mar 17, 2012 @ 2:32 pm | delete
    Maybe for Easter! What about some eggs to hang around the house! Neat page - thanks!
  • Papier Mar 12, 2012 @ 1:34 pm | delete
    You certainly make it easy to get involved again in this fun project.
  • tvyps Mar 9, 2012 @ 11:36 pm | delete
    Looks delicious...oh...it's not to eat? No wonder I don't feel so good...ha!
  • LiteraryMind Feb 29, 2012 @ 10:42 am | delete
    It's funny I was just thinking about salt dough yesterday. In the 70's it was all over the place and now, it's pretty uncommon. Thanks for the revival!
  • SheWritesaLot Feb 14, 2012 @ 3:34 pm | delete
    Brings back some good memories. We used to make this when we were kids. I'd completely forgotten about this. I'll have to make some for my grandkids. Blessed!
  • Funny_Beekeeper Mar 6, 2012 @ 4:09 pm | delete
    Indeed, it brings back good old memories, a family tradition so to speak ;) Thank you for visiting my lens and giving it a blessing :)
  • JaguarJulie Jan 26, 2012 @ 9:27 am | delete
    My one sister in Ohio is very talented at making salt dough Christmas tree ornaments. I personally have never tried it ... and would be encouraged today to give it a whack.
  • gonzalezdenise Jan 4, 2012 @ 10:11 pm | delete
    great lens. thanks
  • ShriyanNayna Dec 29, 2011 @ 9:11 am | delete
    What a great idea, I 'm going to try it with my niece I'm sure she is going to love it :)
  • karmicchristian Dec 26, 2011 @ 1:09 am | delete
    Thanks for the delicious treats! Certainly gonna try this one!
  • lbrummer Dec 23, 2011 @ 2:46 pm | delete
    I've made salt dough Halloween ornaments for an art class and the kids loved painting them. Nice lens.
  • Funny_Beekeeper Mar 6, 2012 @ 4:07 pm | delete
    Great idea for making salt dough ornaments for Halloween - I like this and i will have to try it too! Thanks for giving me such great idea ;)
  • kathysart Dec 18, 2011 @ 2:38 pm | delete
    I used to know someone who made their living making salt dough ornaments when I made my living with pottery. Great lens THUMBS UP, SQUID ANGEL BLESSED
  • Funny_Beekeeper Mar 6, 2012 @ 4:05 pm | delete
    Hello kathysart, thanks for stopping by ;) Well, I also know one person who sells ornaments from salt dough usually around Christmas time, but I'm not sure if this is the only thing she does. And yes, I remembered of her when I was making this lens ;) Thank you for blessing, I appreciate it!
  • Lucy2004 Dec 17, 2011 @ 3:15 am | delete
    What a great activity for all the family. Making Christmas ornaments now. Great lens.
  • Northwestphotos Dec 15, 2011 @ 7:33 pm | delete
    This brings back childhood memories for me!
  • Funny_Beekeeper Mar 6, 2012 @ 4:02 pm | delete
    It sure does, I have to agree with you on this one. Thanks for stopping by and liking my lens ;)
  • cffutah Dec 14, 2011 @ 8:32 am | delete
    delicious lens indeed! enjoyed my visit on this today, thank you!
  • Tipi Dec 12, 2011 @ 5:45 pm | delete
    The only thing I would add to your recipe is a little angel dust....blessed! I'd like to mention that we do have a recipe module available that even allows for a printable version and is easy to use...no need to use all the lines.
  • Funny_Beekeeper Dec 16, 2011 @ 1:52 pm | delete
    Hehehe, thank you Tipi for blessing this lens ;)
    OK, I just updated and included a Recipe module which is really great and easy to use - just like you said. Thanks for your help ;)
  • Katy Dec 12, 2011 @ 11:27 am | delete
    Made some this morning, Thanks! We are making hand and foot print ornaments for grandparents this year.
  • LiteraryMind Dec 9, 2011 @ 3:53 pm | delete
    Maybe next year. It's a little late this year, but I will hold on to the recipe
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