One of my favourite things in the run up to Christmas is the opportunity to be creative, I love making gifts and decorations. These clay decorations have been on my ‘to make’ list since last year, so I’m glad I’ve finally got around to making them. They were very simple to do, and I’m so pleased with the results.



You will need:

Air drying clay. I got mine from hobby craft. This is a 1kg block and I only cut off a small amount which made 6 ornaments.

A rolling-pin

Cookie cutters

Ribbon and lace

Letter stamps

Firstly, I rolled out the clay on some baking paper, until it was about 1.5cm thick. Then I cut out some shapes with the cookie cutters, I used a heart and a star.

If you want to hang your ornaments, you will need to create a little hole now, to hang the ribbon through once the clay has dried. I used the end of a paintbrush to do this.

I used letter stamps to personalise my ornaments. We have one for Frey, one for Mamgu and one for Grandad. These will make great tags to tie onto a wrapped gift, which can then be kept and hung on the tree afterwards. I also made ‘Peace’, ‘Love’, and ‘Joy’ – because what more could you want in life? I’ve had my letter stamps a while, I got them from eBay.

I thought the ornaments could do with a little more decoration, so I then got some lace, and gently pressed it into the clay to make an embossed pattern.

I even had enough clay left over to make a little gift tag which I simply embossed with the lace. Next you need some patience, as the ornaments took about 5 days to dry completely.

Once they were completely dry, I sanded down the rough edges, and tied a ribbon through the hole – so now they’re all ready to tie onto Christmas gifts. All I need to do now is to start my Christmas shopping!