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Showing posts with label easy edible holiday craft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label easy edible holiday craft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label easy edible holiday craft. Show all posts

How to Make Salt Dough Recipe: Self-Portrait Ornaments

How to make Salt Dough Self-portraits as Ornaments

Did you ever wonder how to make salt dough? We made self portraits for a homeschool art project. I included how to make homemade clay and a few salt dough recipes. These mini-mes are a great companion project for a preschool or kindergarten learning body parts lesson. You can also make Christmas Tree Ornaments from Salt Dough. We played around with a variety of themes during our homeschool art lesson. Enjoy!


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How to Make Salt Dough Recipe Christmas Ornaments Decorations
Salt Dough Holiday Ornament Recipe.





Make a Halloween Tree with Homemade Dough Ornaments.


How to make salt dough self portraits Christmas Decorations
Self portraits from homemade clay and salt dough.





How to make dough Christmas ornaments
Make Christmas and Holiday ornaments by inserting straw to form a hole.

This recipe is for  how to make clay without cream of tar tar.


Salt Dough Recipe:




1 C. flour

1 C. salt


1/2 C. water


Mix together and knead.


When ready to cook, put on a baking sheet in 


oven at 100 degrees C/ 200 F for 2-3 hours.


Cooking is not necessary, leave your creations 


in a safe place to dry. We left these in a table drawer


and forgot about them.


When cool, paint or decorate with beads or candy.



Salt dough cookie faces.

You might also like how to make Homemade Clay with cream of tar tar.





We made these self-portraits about four years ago and forgot about them. They've sat in the end drawer of our dining room table ever since. They were never cooked nor painted.

Jake was about four years old and he hadn't met his elementary art teacher yet, but he still had an aversion to art. It was a sensory issue. He didn't like getting his hands dirty. He also worried about getting things on his clothes. If either of these happened, he would get very upset. I suppose this is where my love  of messy crafts was born.


I liked to be tidy as a small child too. I didn't play like the other kids on the playground, because I didn't want to ruin my leotards (today we call them tights) or get grass stains on my clothes. These things troubled me a great deal. So, I'd walk around the perimeter of the playground until the teacher blew the whistle. Little did I know, it was OCD. I've recovered, but some people don't appreciate it. The only way for me to stay sane is to embrace messy things. 


Yep, I didn't want Jake to struggle with the same wacky demons, so I encouraged sensory play.


Even now, he wants to hurry and complete the project so he can wash his hands. If we are mixing dough, he can't let it dry. You know, that crumbly, crackly feeling  on your hands? Mayhem and I like it. It's fun to let the dough dry and then scrape it off similar to letting school glue dry on your hands. I like seeing the fingerprints in the glue peelings. 


Jake? No way. I think this has a lot to do with his hatred of art, and then the teacher came along and made art a boring chore. 


He strives for self-inflicted perfection. He doesn't like the learning curve. He knows a lot. He is a gifted child. When he has to learn something new he is disappointed he didn't already know it. You can see the shame and the disappointment in his face. 


Recently, he had to take a Scantron test online, the test was smart. The more correct answers, the harder the questions. We told him to guess, but he refused. He labored over each question and made a very educated guess. In the end, he scored above average, but the test was torture. He cried with each question  for the first time aware he didn't have all the answers. 



Jake beginning his journey in art.


If only he could realize art works the same way, but it's better because there are no real answers in art. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I am the beholder here. I like his salt dough self-portrait the wavy hair and round face remind me so much of my happy, bouncy, little four year old.

Next week's journey, Animal Printmaking, proved very difficult for a neat freak. Smudges are a perfectionist's nemesis. Start here for Jake's Journey in Art 



Recommended Reading:

Air Dry Clay Projects

Minecraft Creeper Wood Carving Project

Christmas Dough Crafts

Salt Dough: More than 100 Projects! (American Girl Library)


Eight Fun Saint Patrick's Day Craft Activities for Preschool

Here are Eight Saint Patrick's Day Craft Activities for Preschool

Gather the kids and have a fun parade around the classroom while dancing a jig. These games and activities for St. Patty's Day are super easy and require little prep time. Active St. Pat's Day Games for Kids. Enjoy!


Saint Patrick's Day Craft Activities for preschool
Saint Patrick's Day crafts.


1. Carry a Parade Banner




2. Make a Cute Leprechaun Stick Puppet with Scraps


Eight Fun Saint Patrick's Day Craft Activities for Preschool Leprechaun


3 hearts glued together make a shamrock.

4. Every Parade Needs Cookies (3 Yummy Recipes)

From GourmetCookieBouquets.com




Check for snakes in the canal.




Make a rainbow linky.
Use 3 hearts to make an easy shamrock.


Recommended Reading:

St. Patrick Day Crafts for Boys

The Story of the Leprechaun*

The Leprechaun's Gold*

The Stingy Leprechaun Money Counting

















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Holiday Treat Jar Candy Trifle Gifts to Make

5 Gifts in a Jar: Easy Holiday Gifts that Kids can Make.

Make these 5 assorted treats in a jar. The kids can have fun filling jars with yummy holiday treats and passing them out to grandparents as Christmas gifts. No recipes necessary, just layer the different edibles from bottom to top in your jar- just like you would with sand art (our sand art project is edible). Enjoy!

Gifts in a jar how to make a holiday trifle
Popcorn, Whoppers, Pretzels, and Chocolate Chips.
Just add a piece of holiday fabric and raffia ribbon.
This jar is from recycled alfredo sauce.

Gift in a jar ideas to make at home.
Gift in a jar ideas to make at home.

Cupcakes baked in a jar
From Run With Glitter

Gifts in a jar for kids snowglobe
From Rockabye Butterfly.

how to make a snowman in a jar
Snowman in a jar = Grandma gift.

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Easy Preschool Snowman in a Jar Preschool Activity with Cotton Balls

Snowman in a Jar is the Perfect, Easy Preschool Activity for Winter 


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This easy kids snowman activity gem, an adorable snowman in a jar, was designed by my 5 yr. old. It is perfect for developing preschool fine motor skills

The little hands stuff the cotton balls or marshmallows (we used fiber fill) into the jar and then carefully add in his facial features. 

Sure, you can draw the face on the outside, but little hands will develop more skills if they work to find the perfect placement of that carrot nose. It's a great sensory play activity too. You might also DIY Sensory Snow for play-based learning.  


Preschool Winter Activity for kids how to make a Snowman in a jar

This is my all time favorite snowman preschool activity.


You Will Need:

Fiberfill, cotton balls, marshmallows, or popcorn
Candy canes and peppermints
Buttons, Pom-poms
Scrap construction paper, felt, or foam pieces

Stuff a jar full with popcorn, marshmallows, cotton balls, or fiber fill. Have kids squeeze in cut-out shapes for eyes, nose, and buttons. The kids can also do the mouth inside, but it is more fun and gives a 3D effect if you draw it on the jar with a permanent marker. Glue a pom-pom to the top or tie on a scarf.  Voila!


Recommended Reading:

Olaf Story

The Snowman

Snowman Activities for Toddlers


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easy snowman in jar preschool fine motor skills activity


Easy Edible Craft Sugar Color your Marshmallows

How do you Sugar Color Marshmallows?

We love all things marshmallows, and we're always searching for things to do with marshmallows. When we saw these sugar colored marshmallows on "A Nut in a Nutshell.com" we had to try them! The marshmallows are colored with cookie sugars. What do you think? These would be great for building a colorful, gingerbread house or fun, marshmallow flowers.


how to color marshmallows
DIY Colored Marshmallows from A Nut in a Nutshell blog.

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