Snowmen Handprint Ornaments

This year was pretty tight on money, with just moving and everything. So I needed a cute, super cheap project that we could do for the parent gift. I bought the supplies to make salt dough (flour, salt, and oil) and decided to make handprint ornaments!

I looked through many different handprint art projects to find something cute and Christmas related, and decided to do snowmen :)

Here are the pictures:

First you need your ingredients! Total cost was under $5 for everything, plus lots of leftovers for future projects! (BTW, $5 for 12 gifts is not too bad at all!)

Mix everything together!

Form a ball of dough, then roll it out and press little handprints in!

I skipped a couple steps here, but oh well. You will want to bake at 200 for around an hour or two. At an hour, some were still not completely dried out but they had a few days to air dry which was fine. The ones baked at 2 hours were completely fine and dry, so just do whatever you have time for!

Anyways, after baking you can get ready to paint! We tried tempura paint at first, which gave it a very dull look because the paint soaked in. We found acrylic paint is much brighter and looks way better!

First we painted the handprint white, then painted the rest in a solid color. Let it dry (we let it sit for a day, but it was dry after an hour or less.) We used toothpicks to add all the little details! Hats, scarves, eyes, etc. They turned out adorable!

You can read more about it HERE, at Kayla's blog!