DIY salt dough ornaments are easy and fun family keepsakes.
Learn how to preserve hand or footprints as Christmas tree ornaments and treasured gifts.
This season, capture a child’s footprint or handprint with this easy DIY salt dough ornament.
Credit: Matthew Clark
But this project is more than that.
Experts have found handprint tracings by prehistoric people in caves around the world.
Is your kid too fussy to make a hand impression?
Start with something else to pique their interest.
Knead the dough until smoothit should have a playdough-like consistency.
Knead to swirl the color into the dough.
Place the dough on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and roll the dough into a tube.
Use a rolling pin to roll the dough out to 14-inch thickness.
Step 2: Create Print and Bake
Press a hand (or a foot!)
into the flattened dough to create the imprint.
Poke a hole where the ornament will hang using a pencil or plastic straw.
Bake the ornament at 250F for 90 minutes; flip, then bake another 90 minutes.
For a special gift presentation, try boxing the ornament and adding ahandmade gift tag.
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