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.

Using this easy salt dough recipe, make up a batch.
Add 2 cups of flour and 1 cup of salt into a bowl.
Mix them together.
Slowly add in 1 cup of water, mixing after adding small amounts of the water.
Mix the dough until it's completely combined.
Knead the dough and refrigerate it for a short while to make it easier to handle.
Roll the salt dough out on a flour-covered cutting board, using a flour-coated rolling pin.
Roll the dough out until it's about ¼" thick.
Cut shapes (I made circles) out of the dough using cookie cutters and place on a parchment paper-lined cookie sheet.
Use a drinking straw to make holes in the top of each ornament.
This will be a hole for the hanging string.
Press pine needles into the salt dough circles for embellishment.
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.)
Loop a short piece of twine through each ornament and knot it at the top.
You want the loop to be small; much smaller than you would add for a traditional salt dough ornament.
Loop a short piece of twine through each ornament and knot it at the top.
You want the loop to be small; much smaller than you would add for a traditional salt dough ornament.
Tie loops at the end, and your garland is ready to hang up!

You can use any shaped cookie cutter(s) to make the salt dough ornaments for your garland. I used circles in mine.
You can use leaves, shapes, stamps, letters etc to make imprints in the salt dough. Or, you could make them smooth without impressions, and then paint them before you make the garland!
You can double or halve the salt dough recipe if you want to make more or less than the recipe makes. Just make sure the ratio of ingredients remains the same.