Salt dough stars

A beautiful decorative idea for Christmas

Many of us will remember making salt dough models as a child - a real craft classic that never seems to go out of fashion. Salt dough is really easy to make. What’s more, it doesn’t cost much either. The dough is a non-toxic modelling clay from which you can craft all kinds of decorative items and little ornaments. For our Christmas hanging decorations, we rolled out the dough and cut out stars from it. Once dry, the stars can be decorated to your heart’s content using acrylic markers. The set of 5 medium acrylic markers in festive colours provides a wonderful choice of shades for the decoration.

Categories: Christmas
How to paint with acrylics
Products: Acrylic range
Materials: Natural materials
Plaster
Difficulty: Easy peasy
Downloads: Images (ZIP)

Step-by-step

Step 1

The edding 5100 medium set contains five delightfully elegant festive shades. Alternatively, you can choose your own favourite colours for the stars. Combine the dough ingredients well and knead thoroughly.

Step 2

Roll out the dough and cut out the stars, using a toothpick to make holes to enable you to hang the stars up. Leave the stars to dry out for around 4 days, turning them over after 2 days. Alternatively, you can also dry out the stars in the oven.

Step 3

Now it’s time to decorate the stars. Firstly, you’ll need to activate the acrylic marker as follows: shake the marker with the cap still on until you can clearly hear the mixing balls inside, then pump the marker up and down carefully until ink appears in the tip. Test on a piece of paper first. Decorate the stars in whatever way you wish: for example, you could colour in your star using just one shade, or cover half of it in gold, as you can see in our photo.

Step 4

Graphic patterns are also really striking, as we’ve demonstrated here by using berry and moss green as our chosen colours.

Products and materials

edding 5100 acrylic marker medium

Other materials

For the salt dough:
- 2 cups of flour
- 1 cup of salt
- 1 cup of water
- 1 tbsp. oil
Baking paper
Rolling pin
Star-shaped cookie cutter
Toothpick
Cord