salt dough ornaments

yesterdays advent activity for us was to make ornaments

so we used the salt dough that mel goodsell has on her blog as part of her handmade christmas posts.

its great. the kids had a blast

one dough makes HEAPS. we split ours up and made it into 5 different colours.

this first christmas tree lilly and I did together. using the christmas tree cookie cutter. we of course did this one a few times!

then lilly started working on her own tree

she then made a snowman

while the kids were working on their ornaments i made a few with them. sadly lilly thought this was a spiky green mountain! i was going for christmas tree

and this is my snowman

this is emilys tree.

emily had fun squishing the dough up, she didnt really get onto making many ornaments. all good therapy for her hand but. lots of squishing!

these were in the oven for a few hours and last night were coated in modpodge

i can see us using salt dough way more often now.