These fancy schmancy salt dough tags will add pizazz to your DIY wedding favors. They’re fun and easy to make too! If you have stamps with individual letters, you could also use these as name cards.
Here is what you need to make these salt dough tags:
- 2 cups of flour
- 1 cup of salt
- 1 cup of water
- heart cookie cutters
- stamps
(Amazon has a great selection of stamps
, but the ones I used for this tutorial came from Michael’s)
- ink pad
- bamboo skewer or straw to make hole in tags
- ribbon
- sand paper
Preheat oven to 200 degrees Fahrenheit.
Mix dry ingredients.
Add water.
Mix, or get a couple of helpers to do the messy work:)
Roll to 1/4 inch thick.
Ink your stamp. Press stamp into dough.
Press cookie cutter into stamped dough.
Place cut-out on a baking sheet.
Using a bamboo skewer, chopstick or straw, make a hole in the top of the tag.
Bake in 200 degree oven for six hours.
Remove from oven. Sand edges.
Aren’t they gorgeous?
Add ribbon. Fini!! If you want to get extra fancy, paint the tags, add glitter, then varnish.
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WOW...how awesome are these!! My Son & I are going to make these right now!! :) Thank you for this post...so easy to make & they look so pretty!!! :)
Melissa, I hope you have as much fun making them as I did with my girls!
Thank you Christina & yes we had a blast!! My 3 yr old Son helped me!! They are in the oven now & I can't wait to finish them! At first I thought I was just going to buy "Thank You" tags to go on my candy appl wedding favors...but I seen this post & tried it! They are so cute & so much better than store bought tags because they have a personal touch to them!! :)
Melissa, that's so cool that you are using them for your candy apple wedding favors! Glad you had a blast!
These are awesome, I think I will make these with my niece and nephew. I have a question though, does it really take six hours to bake? Thanks for the tutorial. :)
You could try and check them periodically to see if they are dry. I'm pretty sure they will take that long.
These are so cute. I do Kumihimo braids for jewelry. I've been looking for something to help make my braids more attractive. Using your recipe and technique to make charms and pendants will help achieve my goal. It will add more originality and uniqueness to by braids. Thanks a lot.!
Question... Elaine was asking about the baking time. Can you bake them in a small toaster oven?
And what do you think will happen if you cut your shapes out first and then ink stamp it? It was keep all the ink on the shape and not on more of the dough (see your picture on using the cookie cutter). Hope I'm not stepping on your toes, just a few questions and suggestions. Again, thanks a lot for the tutorial!
what a great idea to add a personal touch to your wedding favors! certainly beats the generic "thank you" or "for you" tags that come with most favors!
I'm sure you could put them in the toaster oven Garnie... you can even just set them out to dry overnight. I read on another blog that you should stamp first. You could try it the other way and see what happens.
Thank you for the great tip. You mention the option to paint & varnish. Any specific type of paint and/or varnish recommended?
I used acrylic paint, then non-toxic water based varnish.
Perfect! So simple!! Thanks again.
I love this recipe! I am making some as dog charms and donating them to our " bark for Life " team .
Cute idea Sharon!
What a great idea! I'm have a very small and intimate wedding (of just under 25) and I think these will be a great way to personalize them. Besides, I can decorate some in a more masculine way for the male guests so that they will appreciate them all the more. Love it!
Thanks for the comment Amanda! I hope you have fun with them!
lovely!!!!, very simple and so cute to give them to our love ones... but, is there any other way to cook them?... let them dry or microwave?... i just wonder....
You could let them air dry.
I found these on Pinterest and made them today (they are in the oven now :-) Could you give me some tips on how to keep the dough smooth? As soon as I rolled it out it started to get a dry crackly appearance to the dough, but more water seemed to make it sticky. I live in south Texas, so do you think it might be lack of humidity -- it is so dry and hot here. Your dough looks so smooth in the photos.
Sorry Pam, not sure how to help you. More water?
Do you need varnish if you only stamp, no painting?
Eliza, no, but I like the finished look that it gives.
This might be a silly question, but do these go bad? How long do they last?
Hi Rebecca... there is so much salt in these... I don't think they ever go bad.
Hey there is that 200 degrees celcius or Fahrenheit? I did it for around 60 mins on celcuis and they booked to a crisp lol :(
Sharn, oh my! I will have to add the Fahrenheit.
Thank you for posting this!! I am making these right now with my daughter for Christmas ornaments!! We have all sorts of cookie cutters and stamps. Did you use any type of special paint to finish them? How did you do the glitter?
Thanks for sharing. I am going to make some Christmas ornaments using this idea.
This is a great idea! I actually turned it into a Xmas ornament craft with my 2/12 year old. I didn't really have any stamps so instead I added a few drops of different food colorings to the dough and kneaded it a little so that it looked like tie-die. Really cool. We made stars and hearts and my 2 1/2 year old made her weird shapes which I am planning on hanging like a mobile in my mudroom.
She loved it!
Thanks!
Glad you had fun with it Carla!
I need a little help...last weekend I made some with my little one, the only thing is that ours didn't end up as light as yours...they had a bit of a light tan color..another thing was the backs...some of them seemed to get stuck a bit to the pan and they looked as if they were not "done " in the back...any suggestions? I
Thanks!
question: do they really work as tags? it seems like they would be be to heavy?
Wow, these are details I would love to see at my weddings! your DIY site is great found it through pinterest nice job!
Hi I just saw your tags on Pinterest, they are so pretty! I was a little confused when the link took me to a spam site. It just didn't look right so I Googled Salt Dough tags and this tutorial was the first one that came up. There were other blogs using your pictures but in the end, they linked back to you. For what it's worth!
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These are fantastic and my son & I are going to make them for Fathers day with my 2 year olds finger prints on them and other little special touches...only thing is it is super hot with Summer weather and all so having the oven on for 6 hours...wow I think I will let them dry in the sun...thanks and always love looking at your Blog!