For our family the Christmas table is extra special and I tend to go overboard with decorating it. We have confetti, ribbons, glitter, candles, special plates and cutlery for the day and extra special glasses that only come out for Christmas and special occasions. This year with J enjoying his craft and Christmas I really wanted him to have a part in it and we took the opportunity to extend on the enjoyment of the Salt Dough Decoration making and decorating and made some place name holders.
Salt Dough Names for Christmas Table
What you need
Salt Dough mix
1 cup of salt
1 cup of all purpose/plain flour
1/2 cup of water added gradually.
Holly leaf cookie cutter
Decorating
Green acrylic paints
Glitter Glue
Any additional decorations that you want.
How the fun happens
J cutting the salt dough shapes
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We mixed up the salt dough together – this time it worked better as I gave J a small part of the water and then added more to his little jug to make sure that the mix wasn’t too wet. We then used our hand pat method for flattening the dough and used a holly leaf cookie cutter to cut out 8 leaves for the 8 people that will be having meals over Christmas with us.
It was then put in the oven for 2 hours at just under 100 degrees. The Imagination Tree this week explained the importance of the low heat
It is VERY important not to have the oven on too high. This will cause the salt dough to bubble up and fill with air, as essentially it is being cooked. What you are really aiming for is to dry them out thoroughly, over a slow period of time.
I can say that this really does happen and I threw away a set the other day because thinking that I could speed up the drying process I turned the heat up… but NO all that happened was very cooked (read that as burnt) bubbly salt dough decorations.
J painting the salt dough name holders for Christmas Table
One they were cooked and dry J painted the leaves green with acrylic paint. He had to paint both sides – luckily we have a vinyl table cloth and using acrylic paints which are water based the paint from the reverse came off quite easily.
Once the leaves were dry I used glitter glue to write the family members names on the leaves as J is too young to write if he was older then he would have written the names himself copying or knowing the words. I have then covered them in PVA (white) glue to preserve them.
Christmas Table salt dough names
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Cerys Parker
Cerys is a marine biologist, environmental educator, high school teacher and mum. Realising that life doesn’t have to be put on hold and you don’t just have to survive whilst the kids are young she shares ideas to inspire you to LIVE with the kids, with activities to do together, recipes to cook and enjoy and family travel to make memories to last a lifetime.
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katepickle says
I like a fancy and festive Christmas table too! These are lovely!
Last year I downloaded and printed paper angels that my kids painted and we used them as place names.
critters and crayons says
Really smart idea! A nice personal touch for the table that the kids can totally do!