How to Make a DIY Salt Dough Garland

Learn how to make a DIY salt dough garland for any season using shapes made out of salt dough with a hole in the top to thread twine.

With a good recipe for salt dough, the sky is the limit for the fun craft projects you can make!

One fun idea is to make beautiful circular salt dough ornaments with pine needle embellishments like we did here.

Today, we are going to make a DIY salt dough garland using the same circles we used for ornaments, but we are going to string a handful of them together to make a garland for the mantel!

Step 1. Gather Supplies

Supplies Needed:

Flour - 2 cups
Salt - 1 cup
Water - 1 cup
Cookie Cutters
Pine Needles
Straw
Cookie Sheet
Parchment Paper
Twine
Scissors

Step 2. Using this easy salt dough recipe, make up a batch.

Easy DIY salt dough recipe ingredients - what do you need to make salt dough - how to make salt dough.

2 cups of flour, 1 cup of salt.

Mix together.

Slowly add in 1 cup of water, mixing after adding small amounts of the water.

Knead dough and refrigerate for a bit to make it easier to handle.

Step 3. Roll the salt dough out on a flour-coated cutting board, using a flour-coated rolling pin.

Roll the dough out until it's about ¼" thick.

Roll out salt dough into a thin layer before cutting into shapes.

Step 4. Cut circles out of the dough using cookie cutters and place on a parchment paper-lined cookie sheet.

Step 5. Use a drinking straw to make holes in the top of each ornament.

This will be a hole for the hanging string.

Use a straw to add holes to the top of the salt dough ornaments so you can add a hanging string.

Step 6. Press pine needles into the salt dough circles for embellishment.

Press a pine branch into the salt dough ornament to add a pine impression.

Step 7. Bake the salt dough ornaments in a 250 degree Fahrenheit oven for 2+ hours, until they are dry and hard.

(They can also be air-dried if you have more time - several days at least.)

Salt dough ornaments with pine needles pressed into them.

Step 8. Loop a small piece of twine through each ornament and knot it at the top.

Step 9. String the salt dough ornaments onto a long piece of twine to make the garland.

Tie small twine strings to the salt dough ornaments so you can add them to a longer twine string to hang as a garland.

Depending on how heavy the ornaments are or how slippery the twine garland string is, the salt dough circles may slide around.

You can experiment with adjusting the shape of the twine garland or even glue each ornament in place along the twine garland by gluing the small twine hanging loop to the garland string.

This is a great way to repurpose the salt dough ornaments you made for Christmas and extend their decor life throughout the winter months!

Learn how to make a DIY salt dough garland for any season using shapes made out of salt dough with a hole in the top to thread twine.