We used our white clay recipe, which is really easy to make, so much so that Maxi made it himself and once the dough had cooled down we used cookie cutters to shape our tealight holders.

By keeping the cookie cutter in place and then pressing in a tealight we created an indentation to take the tealight.

For a number of the tealight holders we made, we mixed in some glue glitter, which made the dough so sparkly.

We baked our decorations in the oven on 80 degrees C for 2 hours, turning once  and then left them to dry completely overnight.  You can just leave your dough to air dry.

Once they were dry we used yellow acrylic paint for the suns and silver poster paint for some of the stars, before maxi sprinkle glitter over them.  The snowflakes that already had glitter in them we just placed a tiny layer of PVA and a minimal amount of glitter on.

I am delighted with the tealight holders, they are beautiful and the glitter really reflects the flame.

If you have smaller children then you can use battery operated tea lights.

We usually make salt dough ornaments at this time of the year, but spurred on my Chris at Thinly Spread I decided to give cornflour dough a try.  However, typically I didn’t have the ingredients on hand to make her recipes so made up my own.

How to Make Bright White Salt Dough

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Ingredients

• 2 cups salt
• two-thirds of a  cup of water
• 2 cups cornflour
• Half cup water

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Method

Mix 2 cups of salt with two-thirds of a  cup of water in a pan and stir constantly over medium heat for 2-3 minutes until bubbles appear.

Remove from heat and immediately add to 2 cups cornflour and half a cold water and mix quickly to form a stiff dough and kneed.

Roll out and cut out your shapes, use a straw to push out a hole to thread the ribbon through and then cook for 3 to 4 hours at 150 degrees

As you can see the kids have had a blast decorating the ornaments with glitter glue, more glitter aad some more sparkly gems!

The thing is kids love everything to sparkle and that more is more. What is not to love?