DIY: Bake Your Own Clay Gingerbread Ornaments

Whether you’re celebrating National Gingerbread Day or gearing up for the Holiday Season with adorable crafts, making Gingerbread Clay Ornaments with your children is so much fun! If you loved to bake, these “baked” cookie ornaments go wonderfully as present toppers for gifting with baked goods. Each Gingerbread person can be personalized to fit who you’re creating it for!

Why wait for Christmas to enjoy these yummy cookies?  The combination of spicy ginger, cloves and cinnamon with the sweetness of honey or molasses makes gingerbread cookies an irresistible treat.  Whip up a batch in your oven while you sit down to make these fun gingerbread ornaments.

A small army of little gingerbread men hang from a candy cane ornament display hanger, with a variety of cute expressions such as one with a leg that was bitten | OrnamentShop.com

DIY Gingerbread Ornaments Are The Perfect Family Activity

You only need a few supplies to make these goodies right in your kitchen!

Supplies:

  • Brown clay
  • Red clay
  • Rolling pin
  • Gingerbread cookie cutter
  • Toothpick
  • White paint marker
  • Ribbon for hanging

Assemble the necessary items on your counter space as if you are baking cookies, except with clay instead of dough | OrnamentShop.com

Step 1: Roll out the brown clay like cookie dough until it has an overall even thickness.

Step 1 is to is to use your rolling pin to roll out the clay | OrnamentShop.com

Step 2: Using the cookie cutter, cut out gingerbread ornaments.

Step 2 is to use your gingerbread man cookie cutters to punch out your gingerbread people. Feel free to move the arms and legs into fun positions | OrnamentShop.com

Step 3: Form a little heart with the red clay and press onto the gingerbread man.

Step 3 is to use the red clay to place little hearts on your gingerbread people | OrnamentShop.com

Step 4: Take the toothpick and poke a hole all the way through the gingerbread man’s head.   Bake in the oven according to the instructions on the clay package, usually 230 degrees for 30 minutes.  Let cool.

Step 4 is to use toothpicks to poke little holes at the top of their heads in order to thread a ribbon later, then place them in the oven at 230 degrees for 30 minutes | OrnamentShop.com

Step 5: Draw on the face and icing details with the paint marker.

Step 4 is to let them cool, then draw on faces, sleeves, and personalized names with white paint marker | Ornamentshop.com

Step 6: Thread a ribbon through the hole and knot the end for hanging.

Step 6 is to thread your gingerbread army with pieces of ribbons for hanging on display | OrnamentShop.com

That’s it!  Now you have your very own gingerbread ornaments! To give your gingerbread ornaments more personality, bend their arms and legs prior to baking,  give them a funny facial expression, or pretend cut a piece off as if it has been bitten!

If you don’t like to do crafts in your kitchen, we have Personalized Gingerbread ornaments that you can give to a friend or tie to the top of a box of gingerbread cookies, fresh out of the oven! Browse our selection and find the perfect one for your home.

A variety of gingerbread ornaments for you to purchase including a gingerbread chef, a gingerbread Santa, and a gingerbread family of seven | OrnamentShop.com

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About Dianne Weller

Proud Owner of OrnamentShop.com. I’ve been in the business of buying Christmas decorations and gifts since the early 1980’s. Our web site, OrnamentShop.com, was launched in 1999. Now, 20 years later, we’re proud to say we’re the largest seller of personalized ornaments on the Internet!

One thought on “DIY: Bake Your Own Clay Gingerbread Ornaments

  1. Ellen Golvach

    This is a wonderful idea! We missed National Gingerbread Day but it’s never too early to have fun and make ornaments for Christmas. Do you have an email address where people can send pictures of completed craft projects you share on your blog? I have a five-year old grandson who would love to share his completed masterpiece with you!

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