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Salt Dough & Perler Bead Ornaments

November 9, 2016 by Nadia van Zyl 12 Comments

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Your younger children will love making these salt dough and Perler bead ornaments for your Christmas tree!

salt dough & perler beads ornaments

We love using salt dough for all kinds of crafts, keepsakes and ornaments. Today’s craft is kid-made ornaments made with salt dough and Perler beads!


We actually made salt dough for this fingerprint lights photo frame and had salt dough leftover. The kids wanted to play with it, so out came the Christmas cookie cutters and they made “cookies” using the Perler beads as “sprinkles”. These were so cute that we had to bake them and add a string to them to use as tree ornaments!

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cookies


The salt dough recipe is equal cup flour(I used cake) and salt together with half water.  
Press the desired shapes and transfer them to a baking sheet(with baking paper underneath). Then, press the Perler beads into your dough shapes:

perler beads
ornaments

But don’t press too hard! Great for fine muscle control practice!

Bake these in a low heat oven (80’C/160’F) for around 2 hours. Our Perler beads are old, like 25+ years old, so they did not melt as the new ones do. It should melt a little bit into the dough so it sets.

Pretty kid-made salt dough and Perler beads ornaments, perfect for the younger crowd!

salt dough and perler bead ornaments

Check out this Color-in Your Christmas ebook full of printable Christmas crafts!

Color-in Your Christmas E-Book


We have participated in the series Kid-made Christmas ornaments! Go see what other fabulous ornaments were shared!

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Comments

  1. Shannon says

    November 9, 2016 at 3:44 pm

    I love how simple these ornaments would be to make – especially since we have all the materials on hand. Thanks so much for sharing in my Kid Made Christmas Ornaments Series 🙂

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  2. Stef says

    November 9, 2016 at 4:59 pm

    My kids love to play with play dough and cookie cutters, I should definitely try your ornament idea. I’ll just have to remember to replace the play dough with salt dough 🙂 Thank you for the idea!

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    • Nadia van Zyl says

      November 10, 2016 at 8:39 am

      Perfect! It’s such fun!

      Reply
  3. Angela Guzman says

    November 11, 2016 at 7:46 pm

    Hi, I’m trying to connect with you. I’m an editor and would love to feature one of your crafts in an article that I’m writing, but there is no contact information on your site. Could you please email me? I would love to promote your Snowglobe PhotoFrame Keepsake craft. Thank you! – Angela Guzman

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    • Nadia van Zyl says

      November 11, 2016 at 8:16 pm

      Hi! The contact info is hiding under the About Us section;)
      You can use it, he’s, with a link back, sure!

      Reply
  4. Clare's Little Tots says

    November 13, 2016 at 3:44 pm

    I love the perler beads added to the salt dough (we call them Hama beads here) going to try this with our salt dough decorations this year.

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    • Nadia van Zyl says

      November 14, 2016 at 4:23 pm

      Have fun!

      Reply
  5. Carolyn Wilhelm says

    November 14, 2016 at 2:21 pm

    Pinned and tweeted! I know these are not to eat but they look good enough to do so. Thank you so much for the step by step information and all the helpful photos!

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    • Nadia van Zyl says

      November 14, 2016 at 4:23 pm

      Thank you!

      Reply
  6. Nicola says

    November 14, 2016 at 4:22 pm

    I love how these turned out Nadia.,

    Reply

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