An easy salt dough recipe you can use to make this sparkly salt dough candle holder craft.
Sparkly salt dough candle holders
QUICK RESOURCE >> Download your ready-made Nativity Unit here
Do you remember the salt dough candle holders we made for Diwali? They look just a good decked out in Christmas colours.
The salt dough recipe is the same but this time they’re painted with red acrylic paint with lashings of red glitter for added sparkle.
A row of these on the mantle piece or in the centre of the Christmas dinner table look so festive.
Download your ready-made Nativity Unit
Download the Play Academy’s ready-made Nativity Unit and you’ll have everything you need to lead a set of activities to introduce your children to the Nativity story.
This Unit includes artist-drawn puppets/colour-in nativity scene characters and printable Bible verse cards, that your children can use year after year.
In this Nativity teaching unit your children can:
:: learn about the Nativity and create their own Nativity book or small world scene using colour-in puppet / nativity scene characters
:: learn about Mary and Joseph’s journey, and explore junk modelling
:: learn about the shepherds role, and explore loose parts
:: learn about Jesus’ birth
:: learn about the three wise men, and complete their book / re-tell the story in their small world
Bonus Nativity thematic unit printables
The Play Academy’s thematic units come with practical printables that make the lessons more engaging for your children and easier for you to teach.
No need to go searching for printables to accompany your lessons, they’re all included when you download your chosen unit.
In this Nativity Unit you’ll receive these bonus printables:
:: My Nativity Story book to write, colour and complete to tell the Nativity story
:: a set of artist-drawn My Nativity Puppets to colour, cut out and use to re-cap and act out the Nativity story
:: Nativity Vocabulary Cards to recap and consolidate learning
:: Nativity Bible Verse Cards to read, narrate your own acting out of the story, and perhaps to memorise
How to download this Nativity thematic unit
You can download this unit along with over 50 more from NurtureStore’s Play Academy.
If you are already of the Play Academy, you can download this unit straight away from our Library here.
If you are not yet a member, find out more and choose your first unit here. Your teaching is about to get a whole lot easier!
maggy,red ted art says
So pretty! Love all the sparkle.
Thank you for linking to Kids Get Crafty.
Maggy
Kelsey says
These are so cute! I have a 25 Days of Handmade Christmas series running on my blog and I think this would be a great thing to share with my readers! If you’re interested, I would just need the HTML for a guest post. I’m off to check out the tutorial now.
Cathy @ NurtureStore says
Hi Kelsey. You are very welcome to use one of the photos from this post, with some description, and then a link back here for the full details 🙂
Tascha says
Awesome idea! Very cute!!
Rachel says
i love this idea!!! so cute! Please come and share them here… https://www.bubblynaturecreations.com/2011/12/project-party-weekend-come-link-up-your.html
-Rachel
Katie says
These are adorable….how long did they take to cook? We did salt dough ornaments and they took over 6 hrs to bake! Thanks for sharing at Thrifty Thursday!!
Dawn @ PricklyMom says
LOL–before I started reading, I thought, “hey, these would be great for Diwali, too!” We’ll make these for my boys’ American grandparents AND Indian grandparents. One project. Score! 🙂
Cathy James says
That’s win – win Dawn! Hope you enjoy making them.
Emma says
This would be a great gift idea – it’s kid-friendly but will get used too!