Christmas Cookie Cutter

cut, bake and decorate!

Other Uses for Cookie Cutters – Kids and Crafts

Pumpkins, Gourds and Jack-O-Lanterns Oh My!

Use cookie cutter shapes to punch out a scooped out pumpkin. Or lightly press into any gourd and carefully peel away the outer layer whether it is scooped or not for the latest decorator look.

Play Dough

Use cookie cutters and cookie molds to cut out Play Dough and modeling clay. Make your own Play Dough:

No-Cook Playdough

1 cup water
3 cups flour
1 ½ cup salt
¼ cup of oil
Food coloring

Mix all the ingredients in a bowl. Add flour till it is not too sticky. Let the kids roll out on the table and cut with cookie cutters. You can let these dry and paint. Store soft dough in the refrigerator in a tightly closed plastic bag.

Crayon Shapers

Tightly wrap cookie cutter bottom. Use the good foil for this and STAINLESS STEEL METAL cookie cutters. Lay on a cookie sheet. Remove any paper from broken and short crayons. Place in the cookie cutter. Melt in the oven and cool. Kids have unique shaped crayons.

To make a bunch of these, melt the crayons in the oven on an old cookie sheet. While still warm, cut out with cookie cutters. Let cool before removing.

Make a batch of these for a birthday party favor. Adults like to color, too. At your next casual party, lay white butcher block on the table and give everyone crayon shapes. Or poke a hole while the crayon is still warm and use to tie onto gift packages.

Potato Ink Stamp

Soap Crayons

Take one cup of soap flakes or shaved soap pieces (good way to use those old pieces). Stir in 2 Tablespoons of water and a few drops of food coloring. Stir until thick then spoon into your cookie cutter or cookie mold. Press the soap in tightly then let dry for a few days.

Guest Soap

You can skip the food coloring and mold your own guest soap. Or you can buy ready made melt and pour soap. Soap making is an easy and fun craft. Your cookie cutters will add to the shapes you can make. Make soap for every occasion or interest. Use in your bathroom or as party favors or even gifts.

Sand Box or Beach

Shape wet sand and let dry. Create imprints on your sand castles.

Make a Wind Chime

Candles

Buy ready to use candle making supplies and use your METAL STAINLESS STEEL cookie cutters as molds. The easiest way is to pour the wax to about 1/8th to ¼ inch in a foil lined cookie pan. Cut out two shapes while the wax is still warm and pliable. Sandwich the wick between the two soft shapes and gently press together. Let harden.

Or you can use ½ inch wax and cut out cute floating candles.

Make a simple candle holder. Roll clay to 1/4” thick. Use a small juice glass to cut out a round bottom. Then cut a square piece and cut out the middle with a cookie cutter shape. Gently bend the square so that it can sit on top of the round bottom and press the two together. Let dry or fire. Place tealight or votive in a glass candles behind the cut out shape.

Ceramics

Love ceramics class? Make your own shapes out of Plaster of Paris and paint. Make interesting shelf knickknacks, sweet grandparent gifts or package tie ons.

Photos

Cut photos using larger simple shapes like hearts and flowers. Add to a collage or scrapbook. Or cut from pretty paper and mount pictures on the paper.

Cut two pieces of sturdy construction paper about the size of a small picture frame. Using a cookie cutter as a stencil, cut out the inside of one of the pieces of construction paper. Layer over a picture, then over the plain remaining piece. Makes a nice gift for a grandparent or parent. Or let the kids frame their favorite pictures for their rooms. Instead of photos, let them frame magazine clippings of their favorite tween idol.

Just Stencils

Create your own iron on appliqués

Quilt pieces

Fabric painting

One of a kind gift wrap

Last year’s Christmas cards recycled as gift tags.

Make a trinket box.

Make coasters from thin sponge or cork.

Napkins and table cloths with indelible fabric markers and paint.

Fabric catnip cat toys.

Easter Egg Mini Pinata

Blow up a balloon. Coat with paper mache leaving the narrow end open. Paint. Cut cookie cutter shapes from tissue paper. Decopague onto your egg. Add a clear top coat. Fill with Easter treats.

For a full size piñata, use a beach ball.

Holidays

Any of the “other uses” items, including cookies, can be made for occasions and holidays. Just vary the cookie cutters and colors.
Birthday parties
Showers
Weddings
Fourth of July
St. Patrick’s Day
Easter
Halloween
And so on.

Cookie Cutter Charades

Put cookie cutters in a bowl. One person pulls out a cutter, carefully hiding it from the other players. This person then acts out the cookie cutter. The winning guesser gets to eat a cookie.

Outside

Cut bread in shapes to hang for the birds

Treasure Stones

1 cup flour
1 cup used coffee grinds
1/2 cup salt
1/4 cup sand
3/4 cup water
Mix all the ingredients in a bowl to form dough. Press the dough into cookie cutters or molds to make shapes. Imbed a small trinket inside. Or you can simple roll them between your palms free form to look like rocks. Dry for 2 – 3 days in a warm place like your furnace room. Break with a small hammer. Kids LOVE that part. You can speed the process by baking on a cookie sheet at 150 degrees for 15-20 minutes but this will limit what you can put in the rocks. The dough can also be tinted with food coloring.

Treasure rocks are good for party favors, scavenger hunts and Easter egg hunts. A simple filler could be varies coin denominations. Or you might want to make one to hide your spare key.

Rainy Day

Have a roll of cookie dough, store bought or homemade in the freezer. When the kids are whining they have nothing to do, bring out the cookie cutters. Slice and shape. Decorate for hours.

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