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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.