Christmas made from salted dough

Christmas ornaments, garlands, gifts are all traditional attributes of a bright holiday, so necessary for creating a kind and joyful atmosphere in our hearts. They can be purchased at the store, or you can do it yourself. For example, unusually beautiful and original ornaments are obtained from a salted dough.

It should be noted that dentistry is one of the oldest decorative arts, which is gradually reviving thanks to the efforts of needlewomen and small masters. And Christmas and New Year - this is an excellent occasion to make an original Christmas craft of salted dough, in order to decorate your house and fully enjoy the pre-holiday turmoil.

What New Year's crafts can be made from a salted dough?

A completely different kind of traditional symbols of Christmas, if they are made from salted dough, are snowflakes, fir-trees and asterisks, decorated with a felt-tip pen or paints. Such snowflakes can be gathered in a garland or used as Christmas toys or pendants.

So, a few original ideas for family creativity on the eve of the holidays.

To make New Year's and Christmas crafts from salted dough of this kind, we need: flour, salt, water, paint, sequins, biscuit molds in the form of snowflakes, fir-trees, hearts and snowmen. When the main ingredients and additional elements are prepared, let's start creating our jewelry:

1. To begin with we knead the dough, for this we mix in equal proportions salt and flour, then gradually add water until the dough becomes elastic and does not stop sticking to the hands.
2. Then roll out the dough, and with the help of conventional cookie cutters we make various figures.
3. After all the figures are cut, we make a hole on each of them. To make holes we need a plastic tube.
4. Now the blanks need to be dried: for this you can simply leave them outdoors for the night or put for 2-3 hours in the oven (the temperature should not be more than 100 degrees).
5. Well, it's up to the little thing to decorate our ornaments. And what is most remarkable, now your imagination is not limited. The received Christmas symbols from the salted dough can be sprinkled with sequins, painted with colors in any color, glued beads and rhinestones. By the way, sequins, rhinestones and other decorative elements are applied with the help of PVA glue, and paints in the usual way.
6. In general, we did something like this.