Ingredients to Make a Baby Handprint Ornament

1. 1 1/4 cups baking soda.
2. 3/4 cup cornstarch.
3. 3/4 cup water.
4. A ribbon for hanging the ornament.
5. Wax paper.
6. Something to press the dough out, like a rolling pin or flat-bottomed bowl.
7. Paint or glitter to decorate the ornament (optional)

Hans Greiner Hans Greiner began to make glass Christmas ornaments called baubles during the 1800s. These were the first manufactured Christmas ornaments, and they were a huge commercial success.

Make your keepsake:

1. Combine salt and flour; add water a little at a time.
2. Knead until a smooth dough forms.
3. Roll out dough to ½-inch thickness.
4. Make your handprint/footprint.
5. Poke a hole in the top for the ribbon.
6. Bake at 200 for 3 or more hours until dried all the way through.
7. Let cool for a few hours before painting.

1. Step 1: Make Salt Dough. Make the salt dough for your ornaments by combining flour, salt, and water.
2. Step 2: Create Print and Bake. Press a hand (or a foot!) into the flattened dough to create the imprint.
3. Step 3: Finish and Hang Your Handprint Ornament. After baking, allow the handprint ornament to cool completely.

Preserve Baby's Handprint Sure, you'll have photos to look back on, but there's something extra-special about preserving baby's handprint in salt dough or paint to remember how tiny your child was at their first Christmas. You can even turn it into a Christmas ornament!

12 ways to celebrate your baby's first Christmas

• Immortalize a handprint or footprint.
• Mark their height.
• Take a slice of the tree.
• Give something soft and cozy.
• Snap an annual photo.
• Capture a photo you can only do once.
• Pop on some small slippers.
• Buy a personalized ornament.

They take a glass cylinder. And fire its wider end so it softens. The glass maker blows into the pipe end to stretch the supple glass into the basic shape of a bobble. Ornament.

Christmas ornaments, baubles, globes, "Christmas bulbs" or "Christmas bubbles" are decoration items, usually to decorate Christmas trees. These decorations may be woven, blown (glass or plastic), molded (ceramic or metal), carved from wood or expanded polystyrene, or made by other techniques.

Capturing a handprint in salt dough is a perfect grandparent gift, or a keepsake ornament to make for your own tree. I love pulling out our little collection year after year. Know that getting a good print may take a few tries if doing a baby's hand!

Using a paintbrush, paint each family member's hand with desired paint color. Gently lay the painted handprint onto the paper or canvas making sure the entire handprint is made. Let dry. Optionally, add a title or date and frame.

A few minutes spent massaging the palm and relaxing the hand can really help. A gentle squeeze of the knuckles can help draw out the fingers enough for you to get the hand onto the page. If you are unable to get a good handprint, a footprint might be easier.