How to Make Homemade Dough Christmas Tree Ornaments

Making homemade Christmas ornaments can be fun. You can make several different types of Christmas tree ornaments with these free ornament dough recipes.

Kids and other family members can help in making the doughs. They can also help in cutting them out, hand molding them, and placing the dough into molds. Once the ornaments are baked, cooled, and dried, family members can help decorate, paint, and lacquer them.

NOTE: Read through the materials needed and how to make the ornaments before getting started. This will allow you to make sure you have everything needed on hand before starting any of the Christmas tree dough ornaments.

Materials for Making the Homemade Dough Christmas Tree Ornaments

Dough Recipe for Christmas Ornaments - This is listed below. You will need to make sure you have the ingredients for any one or all of the dough recipes.

Christmas Cookie Cutters - You can use your favorite Christmas cookie cutters for this craft project.

Christmas Candy or Soap Molds (Optional) - You can use either of these types of molds to make your Christmas tree ornaments. The candy molds will be found in the section where the candy making supplies are located in the craft store. The soap molds will be found in the section where the soap making supplies are located in the craft store.

Cookie Sheet - You will need at least one of these to bake the ornaments on.

Spatula (Optional) - That is to remove the dough ornaments from the cookie sheet.

Rolling Pin - You will need one of these to roll out any of the doughs you are going to use cookie cutters on.

Paints Markers, glue, paint brushes, trims, and glue - Those are just a few of the things you will need to decorate your Christmas tree ornaments.

Homemade Christmas Tree Ornament Dough Recipes

Dough Recipes for Making Christmas Ornaments

There are five dough ornament recipes. You can use these to make your own Christmas ornaments. Each of the recipes require different ingredients.

Directions for Making the Christmas Tree Dough Ornaments

You can craft the ornaments by hand, with cookie cutters, and molds. You can find some of the craft molds on the soap making aisle of many craft stores.

Follow the directions for each of the dough recipes. Roll out the doughs into a flat sheet if you are going to use Christmas cookie cutters. If you chose not to add the food coloring, tempura paint or food coloring paste into the mixture, bake the ornaments before painting and decorating them. Be sure to put a hole in the tops of the ornaments before you bake them. By doing this now, you won't have to worry about doing it when they are baked. If you wait until then, chances are you will break your Christmas tree ornaments.

Once the Christmas dough ornaments are baked and cooled, you and your family can paint them as you see fit. Be sure to let the paint dry before adding any other types of trims and embellishments to your Christmas tree ornaments. You can add any other embellishments such as beads and ribbons by gluing them on.

Once you have your Christmas tree dough ornaments painted and trimmed, thread some ribbon long enough to make a hanger for the tree through the hole and tie it in a bow or knot. This will allow you to hang them without the metal ornament hooks.