Santa salt dough handprint decorations
Every year I make sure everyone knows about this lovely little Christmas craft idea early enough to get them done in time! They are so easy to do and very effective. I made my first ones 2 years ago when Thing 5 was just a few months old so some of ours are really small and cute. Ideal for baby, toddler and small children's hands. Ideal for the older children to paint themselves although I did get quite annoyed if they didn't do it quite right so I painted the ones we were giving as gifts.
You make up the salt dough and roll it out, not too thin. Press the child's hand into the salt dough and then carefully cut around the hand print shape. Don't forget to put a decent size hole in it for hanging once cooked and painted.
Nearly finished.
All finished and painted with the Christmas ribbon.
They make a fab gift for relatives and it means that each year it can come out as a decoration for the tree, I gave them all a Thing 5 sized one for the tree which was made on his first Christmas. Baby/toddler sized hands make the cutest little Santa decoration. I also found some cellophane bags with gold ribbon in my local pound shop which were ideal as gift bags and I think there were 20 in the pack.
So there you have it. An easy yet effective Christmas decoration that the relatives will love to receive when it is lovingly hand made and includes your child/s hand print.
Our Santa hand prints ready and in their gift bags.
We tried to make these last year but they didn't look anywhere near as good as yours. I think we'll have to try again this year now they're older.
ReplyDeleteThese look lovely, I'll have to give them a go. #Toddlerapprovedtuesday
ReplyDeletethese look wonderful, I remember mine making them at school and thinking what a clever idea they were. #ToddlerApprovedTuesday
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