You are going to love this fingerprint Christmas tree ornament! Make salt dough fingerprint ornaments using our easy coloured salt dough ornament recipe. Making fingerprint salt dough ornaments is an easy Christmas craft for toddlers and preschoolers that can be treasured forever! We LOVE salt dough crafts and keepsakes and these fingerprint salt dough ornaments look adorable hanging on the Christmas tree. Follow our step by step instructions below to see how to make a fingerprint Christmas tree; a salt dough ornament to bring out year after year! 

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Santa salt dough handprint ornaments are the perfect Christmas craft for kids! Making Christmas salt dough ornaments couldn't be easier using our easy salt dough recipe, and these salt dough Santa handprint ornaments make adorable Christmas keepsakes to bring out year after year.  

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Christmas salt dough ornaments are easy to make and look great hanging on the Christmas tree. Using our easy salt dough ornament recipe, you can mix up a batch of salt dough in minutes and create personalized Christmas ornaments to treasure forever! We bring out our salt-dough Christmas ornaments year after year, and it is lovely to see how these salt dough crafts develop as the children get older.

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If you're spending lots of time inside, it might be time to set up a dramatic play donut shop! While you could just cut out a donut, why not make a Salt Dough Donut Craft to add to the fun? It's no secret we love a good Salt Dough Craft, and I thought this would make for a fun project. It's pretty easy to do and so much fun to decorate the donuts! Follow the step by step directions below to make your very own salt dough donuts.

 

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Salt dough handprints make such adorable keepsakes! You've probably heard the expression, "The days are long, but the years are short," when it comes to raising children. It couldn't be more accurate, though. In the blink of an eye, another year has passed, and your kids look so much bigger. Remember them just as they are right now by making some fun salt dough handprint crafts to capture everyday moments or holidays and seasons. 

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I have fallen in love with this salt dough family handprint keepsake! Making it is easy if you follow our simple salt dough recipe and the only ingredients that you need are salt, flour and water. I am a huge fan of salt dough crafts and handprint art projects, but this is the first time we have made a whole family salt dough project. I hope you love this salt dough handprint craft as much as we do!

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Ready for some fun salt dough ideas for kids that you can get started on right away? The great thing about salt dough projects is that you have everything you need to get started right in your pantry. It's true! The most basic salt dough recipes just use salt, flour, and water, and those are ingredients nearly everyone has on hand. Sure, you'll want to add some colour to the dough, but it's not completely necessary. And if you don't have paint, you could always colour the salt dough with food colouring for lighter colours or markers once the mixture is completely dried.

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Here is a fun last minute Easter craft to bring out year after year! Remember your child's little handprints forever with this salt dough handprint chick. Use our easy salt dough recipe to mix up a batch of dough, take a handprint and then have fun painting your salt dough Easter decoration. This is such a fun Easter handprint idea and you can get super creative with how you paint the egg shape.

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You are going to LOVE this adorable Christmas handprint elf craft made from a toddler or baby handprint! Using our easy salt dough recipe you can make these salt dough handprint ornaments using just 3 ingredients that you are sure to already have in your house! Salt dough crafts are fun and easy to make and salt dough ornaments like this elf ornament look adorable hanging on the tree as well as being keepsakes to treasure forever. Scroll down below for our easy step-by-step instructions for making these salt dough handprint ornaments.

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Ready for a super fun salt dough decoration activity?! Toddlers and preschoolers will love helping you decorate these in their favourite marker colours! Decorating salt dough is the perfect Christmas activity for those cold winter afternoons. Follow the easy step-by-step directions below to make your own salt dough ornaments.

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Christmas is coming! Well, we are in November which is close enough! Mix up a batch of cinnamon salt dough and make some fingerprint gingerbread man ornaments. These Christmas salt dough ornaments will look adorable hanging on your Christmas tree and they make such cute keepsakes too. 

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Make the cutest fingerprint ladybird magnets from salt dough.  Salt dough is cheap and easy to work with and using your child's fingerprints turns this simple kids craft into an adorable keepsake. 

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Butterfly crafts are perfect for kids during the Summer months. These fingerprint butterfly magnets are made using an easy salt dough recipe and they make great keepsakes or gift ideas. Salt dough is so easy for toddlers and preschoolers to craft with and these fingerprint butterfly magnets look great on the fridge.

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We love our salt dough crafts and today we made handprint frames to add to our collection. These salt dough frames are a simple craft for kids to create and they make adorable keepsakes.  Why not help your child make one as a homemade gift to give to someone special this Valentines day or Mothers day.  

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Make a cute salt dough handprint ornament to treausre forever! This adorable salt dough robin craft is easy to make using our simple salt dough ornament recipe. Whether you are looking for a Christmas or winter craft for kids this salt dough handprint ornament is perfect for babies, toddlers or preschoolers so you can make a keepsake to remember forever how little they once were. 

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Make adorable star photo frame ornaments using our easy salt dough ornament recipe. These Christmas salt dough ornaments look like tiny hanging photo frames on the Christmas tree. Salt dough crafts are easy enough for the youngest toddlers or preschoolers to get involved with and these salt dough Christmas ornaments make such cute keepsakes.  This Christmas craft is inspired by the book 'How to Catch a Star'.  

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Keepsakes don't come much cuter than this adorable salt dough footprint penguin. Made from our simple salt dough recipe this is a perfect winter craft that can be treasured in years to come.  We love handprint and footprint keepsakes as they are a cute way of treasuring how tiny our babies, toddlers or preschoolers hands and feet really are. 

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These Christmas handprint, footprint and fingerprint keepsakes are made using an easy salt dough recipe. Using only 3 ingredients you can create adorable salt dough keepsakes that will last forever. These salt dough ornaments are easy to make and any parent or grandparent would be delighted to receive one as a gift for Christmas. 

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This bakers shop imaginative play activity is based around the nursery rhyme, 'Five Currant Buns'. Children will love becoming bakers to make their own pretend currant buns to sell in a bakers shop. It is a great song for helping children learn to count and for introducing them to the concept of money. 

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We love salt dough crafts and these thumbprint character magnets are no exception. They make great little mothers day or valentines day gifts.  Each of these salt dough magnets have a thumbprint character and the message 'THUMBbody loves you' written across them.  

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