Colorful OOLY DIY Air Dry Clay Christmas Ornaments

Craft blog by: @emilee.mitchel on Instagram

Christmas ornaments are one of the most classic symbols of the holiday season. Without them, your Douglas Fir would just be a regular old plant instead of a festive Christmas tree. In addition to being a classic decoration, many families use ornaments to commemorate a moment in time, like the birth of a child, a special vacation, or different stages of childhood. Aren’t handmade ornaments a hallmark of any family Christmas tree? We love the tradition of a homemade ornament as much as we love Christmas crafts for kids, so we combined the two into a fun and festive DIY Christmas ornament craft! Using Creatibles Air Dry Clay Kit and The Ink Works Markers you can create one-of-a-kind ornaments that can be given as gifts or brought out each Christmas when you trim your tree.

Time Duration: 30 minutes

Skill Level: Intermediate

OOLY Products Needed:

Other Items Needed:

Scissors (adult supervision required)
String or yarn
Cookie cutters

Directions:

OOLY creatibles clay in different colors on the table, along with holiday cookie cutters and 2 pieces of red, green and white clay ready to craft.

Step 1: Choose 2-3 colors of the Creatibles DIY Air Dry Clay Kit, pull apart each color into two separate pieces.

OOLY creatibles clay in different colors on a table next to holiday cookie cutters, a hand rolling green clay into a snake. OOLY craft blog step 2.

OOLY creatibles air dry clay in different colors alongside holiday cookie cutters on a table, next to clay that was rolled out into snakes lined up alternating colors of red green and white, two each. OOLY craft blog step 2b.

A hand rolling out another long snake of red clay, on the table are other clay snakes lined up in green pink and red colors. OOLY Craft blog step 2c.

Step 2: Roll out each piece into a rope about 5-6 inches long. You should have 5-6 ropes of clay.

OOLY creatibles air dry clay in different colors alongside holiday cookie cutters on a table, next to two hands holding the snakes or ropes of clay that have been put together and twisted to look like a candy cane. OOLY craft blog step 3.

Step 3: Gather all of the ropes and gently start twisting them together. Smooth out by rolling into one long rope, about 9-10 inches long.

Step 4: Fold this rope in half and repeat the twisting again.

OOLY creatibles air dry clay in different colors alongside holiday cookie cutters on a table, next to two hands holding a ball of clay, this ball was the twisted roll of different colors of clay from the previous step.. OOLY craft blog step 5a..

A hand that is flattening a ball of twisted colors of clay, next to the hand are two other balls of clay that were twisted colors, one green and white and one red, white and green. OOLY Craft blog step 5c.

Step 5: Gently squish the rope into a ball.

OOLY creatibles air dry clay in different colors alongside holiday cookie cutters on a table, next to two hands using a rolling pin making the ball of twisted colors of holiday clay into a pancake, clay is red white and green like a candy cane. OOLY Craft blog Step 6.

Step 6: Next, use a plastic rolling pin to flatten out the ball to about 1/4 inch.

A flat rolled out holiday colored clay using OOLY creatibles air dry clay that has two hands pushing a gingerbread cookie cutter into it. OOLY craft blog step 7a.

A flat rolled out holiday colored clay using OOLY creatibles air dry clay that has two hands pushing a candy cane cookie cutter into it. Creatibles clay and other cookie cutters on the table too. OOLY craft blog step 7b.

Three candy canes of OOLY Creatibles air dry clay of holiday colors red white and green cut out on the table next to a cookie cutter and the clay that they were cut out of. OOLY craft blog step 7c.

Step 7: Grab all of your festive cookie cutters to create the ornament shapes. Gently press the cookie cutter into the clay carefully removing the ornament shapes.

Three candy canes that are cut out of Creatibles Air Dry Clay in holiday colors of red white and green on the table next to cookie cutters and other tubs of clay, a hand is poking a hole at the top of the ornament with a straw. OOLY craft blog step 8.

Step 8: Next, use a straw to poke a hole at the top of the ornament to later place the string. Set aside the ornaments for 24 hours so the clay can dry.

A hand using OOLY The Ink Works Markers to write their name on a gingerbread man ornament that was created out of OOLY Creatibles air dry clay. There is paint pods and a brush along with two candy cane ornaments on the table. OOLY Craft Blog step 8b.

A hand using OOLY The Ink Works Markers to write their name on a tree ornament that was created out of OOLY Creatibles air dry clay. There are 2 candy cane and 2 ginger bread ornaments on the table. OOLY Craft Blog step 8c.

Step 9: Once the clay and dried, it’s time to add the embellishments! Use OOLY The Ink Works Markers to add additional details and personalize the ornaments.

Completed air dry clay ornaments on white background including red and green candy canes, gingerbread men and christmas trees

Step 10: Finally, affix string, yarn or ribbon and tie to a bow so you can display your beautiful ornaments.

These easy DIY Christmas ornaments are not only fun, but make adorable, thoughtful, and commemorative DIY Christmas gifts for the family. Make them for grandparents, aunts and uncles, or even teachers. But don’t forget to keep some for your own tree!

We would love to see photos of your craft projects! Tag us on Instagram at @WeAreOOLY using #OOLYcreateyourhappy.

Colorful OOLY Air Dry Clay DIY Christmas Ornaments

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