Advent Decorating Idea
I wrote over at my crafty blog about making a special advent calendar. It’s a fun way to mark down the days until the big holiday for kids, and helps young ones understand time, counting, and hopefully a little patience.
We are doing very little decorations this year, hopefully to prevent anything breaking due to hyperactive cats and wild little boys. But I wanted to do something fun and decorate a little. As I was thinking aobut it last night I came up with an idea. Make a batch of salt dough and create handmade ornaments. They are inexpensive to make so if they get broken it’s not a big deal, unlike my special handblown glass ornaments. Roll the dough out with a rolling pin and cut several ornaments out with cookie cutters. Then bake, paint, and apply a clear varnish to protect them. Or you can leave them unpainted and plain so that you can crumble them later and toss them outside for birds or other animals to eat. They are just flour, salt, and water so you do not have to worry about poisoning anyone or anything.
My sister-in-law suggested using white ribbon and writing a single word on each ribbon then attaching it to each ornament. Then as you hang each one you can talk about the word on that ornament. Love, peace, thanks, hope, and joy were a few of her suggestions. I’m sure anyone can think of many more words they can use.
I was thinking of posting some link with some great holiday/winter ideas and resources, but Doc alrady has a great list up. So I’ll just point you in her direction instead.
winter, ornaments, decorations, Christmas
December 5th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Great idea–salt dough is so versatile!
And apparently eco-friendly too, I hadn’t thought of that.
December 5th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
i love the ribbon idea…we are making cookie cutter ornaments this year and that would be a perfect addition to our ornaments…thanks
December 6th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
That is a great idea. Thanks.