Salt Dough Ornaments

It was such a nice, lazy Sunday afternoon yesterday. Perfect for a quick and easy Christmas craft. My kids LOVE to paint so they were especially thrilled to paint these salt dough ornaments from Montessori by Hand. It's funny that I have never made salt dough because it seemed like it was a big messy hassle. Not so. So very simple. I doubled the recipe she had listed and it made 14 ornaments. We could of made 20 more. While Mia enjoyed smearing on all of the colors onto her ornaments, Jake carefully painted a snowflake, Santa hat, reindeer, and two striped ornaments.

It was fun for me to paint too. I particularly enjoy the snowman I made. All in all, this was a quick and easy and cheap project. We will probably make these again soon. I think that I will double the batch yet again and get out the cookie cutters to make fun shapes. I am thinking about using these as decorations for our gifts we are making, which are coming along quite nicely I might add.

This project fit nicely into my theme for this holiday. Simplified, using what I have focusing on faith, family and feelings. Oh yes, speaking of faith and family, I do have a list of scriptures to read daily about the Savior. Feel free to follow along!