How To Make Animal Paw Print Ornaments

This mail is sponsored by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment and The Secret Life of Pets. Equally ever, t he opinions are entirely my own.

All iii of my children actually sat through an ENTIRE motion picture on the weekend. Gosh omnipotent, I swear I've been waiting YEARS for this to happen! We sat down together as a family unit and watched The Secret Life of Pets (You lot can buy it on Blu-ray & DVD on December 6) and we made it through the entire movie without pausing it even once. I have been dreaming of having a family film night, probably since before I even had my kids!

So we had three kids and we realized that i. They don't like grown up movies, and ii. They don't similar to sit down still for very long. And then it took u.s. a few actress years to make this happen… All I tin can say is thank goodness these kids movies are filled with grown up humour! My husband and I were laughing out loud a few times, and the kids were like "whaaaat???". Ha!

Too, did I tell y'all we got a dog last month? It's a long story, just he's a furry footling silver coloured miniature poodle named Chase. The kids have been over-the-moon thrilled about having him here! They're super excited to buy him Christmas presents, and of course they wanted to make him his very own Christmas ornament to hang on the tree. These puppy paw print salt dough ornaments are SO Beautiful!! And they're such a fun way to gloat our new hirsuite friend! It's such a sweet Christmas emblem idea and they ended upwardly looking Adorable!

So with our own new pet in the family, and The Surreptitious Life of Pets movie to watch, I decided to brand a whole fun filled family dark out of it! We made the manus print salt dough ornaments, watched the film together while the ornaments stale out in the oven, and and so nosotros painted and GLITTERIZED them (that's not a word, but I'g okay with that…).

I know, I know, our dog is actually a boy, but the pink and white ornament above was inspired by one of the moving-picture show characters – I'll get to that in a minute. It really concluded upwardly existence the cutest ane we made! We made a blueish and white ornament for our pup, but information technology was harder to photo. I've included a pic of information technology forth with our new pup Chase downwardly below.

My kids (or my girls at least…) fell in love with the movie graphic symbol named Gidget. And since we had then many hand impress ornaments that had broiled, we decided to make one for Gidget every bit well. And it ended upwardly being the cutest one we made!

The movie The Hugger-mugger Life of Pets is a comedy virtually the lives our pets atomic number 82 after we leave for piece of work and school each 24-hour interval. Do you ever wonder what your own pets exercise when you're not home? I'grand pretty convinced our poodle spends a lot of time staring at our door like the main graphic symbol of the movie, Max in the picture beneath (and possibly barking and scratching at the door as well…).

You tin buy The Secret Life of Pets with 3 Mini Movies on Blu-ray & DVD on December 6. It's such a fun movie to watch together as a family this holiday season! It'southward from the aforementioned people who made Despicable Me (my kids LOVE those movies as well!).

The new release features nearly an 60 minutes of bonus content, including iii hilarious mini-movies: the all-new Norman Tv and Weenie PLUS Mower Minions which debuted in theaters and is at present available to own.

The all-star voice bandage includes Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart, Jenny Slate, Ellie Kemper, Lake Bell, Dana Carvey, Hannibal Buress, Bobby Moynihan, Steve Coogan and Albert Brooks. Here's the trailer for the movie…

Before nosotros started watching the movie, we fabricated the salt dough and then it could dry out out in the oven during the movie.

How to Make Mitt Print Salt Dough Ornaments

The total printable recipe is at the cease of this mail service, but here's what you lot'll need:

Common salt
Water
Flour
Matte Finish Mod Podge
Paint
Glitter
Golden Paint Pen or Sharpie

Our paw print salt dough ornaments were inspired past The Secret Life of Pets. It'south and so much fun to personalize them for your ain pets besides!

Mix together all of the ingredients.

Then kneed it together until it becomes a doughy ball. If it's too viscous, add a scrap more flour.

Ringlet out it on the counter with a rolling pin until it'southward near one/4 inch to 1/ii inch thick.

And then use a small plastic cup to cutting out the circles. Just make certain your loving cup is slightly larger than your dog'south paw.

Gently press your dog's paw into the dough to make the imprint.

Utilise a harbinger to cut holes for the ribbon.

Then transfer the circles to a parchment lined baking sheet and bake them at 225ºF for ii to 3 hours until they are completely dried out.

While the paw print common salt dough ornaments were baking, I put together our movie dark snacks.

OK, I might accept gone a picayune overboard on the snacks. I Dearest picture theater snacks! So I tried to recreate that experience for my kids, in individual dollar shop plastic bins so we wouldn't have any arguments about sharing. The kids were soooooooo excited!!

Don't worry… we ate healthy food the residue of the meals that day…

And aye, we have ii perfectly comfy sofas, but the kids chose to sit down on the floor. Do your kids practice that too? Go figure!

It gave my husband and I more than room on the sofas while information technology lasted. By the end of the movie, they were all sitting on our laps anyway.

When the pic was over and our ornaments were baked and stale, they were fix to decorate! Paint, glue and glitter… oh my give-and-take, those are my girls' favourite things!

We used acrylic pigment from the dollar store to paint the ornaments.

Nosotros painted the whole matter white and painted the paw banner pinkish for the Gidget inspired ornaments.

And so we added a layer of matte terminate Mod Podge.

And sprinkled it generously with white glitter.

In one case that had dried, nosotros added a pink ribbon and bow.

The ornament nosotros fabricated for our little Hunt was painted blue with a white mitt imprint, with the paw imprint filled with glitter. Hither'southward a cameo of our little guy and his ornament.

Y'all can make these in any mode you lot like to match your pup'southward colouring and personality.

Paw Print Table salt Dough Ornaments

You can brand these in any style you lot like to lucifer your pup's colouring and personality!

i/2 loving cup hot water
one/2 cup salt
i loving cup flour
Acrylic Paint
Matte Finish Modernistic Podge
Glitter
Ribbon
Gold Paint Pen or Sharpie

Mix together the hot water, salt and flour. Kneed it together with your hands until it forms a dough brawl. If information technology's besides sticky, add some extra flour.
Curl out the dough until it is 1/4 inch to 1/2 inch thick.
Use small plastic cups to cut out circle shapes.
Gently press your dog's manus into the center of the circle to brand an banner.
Apply a drinking straw to cut a hole for the ribbon.
Transfer the circles to a parchment lined blistering sheet and bake at 225F for 2 to iii hours until they are solid and completely stale out.
In one case they have cooled, paint the ornaments in colours to match your pup's personality.
Write your domestic dog's proper name and the year on the front or dorsum of the ornament using a golden pigment pen or Sharpie marker.
Add a coat of Matte Finish Mod Podge and sprinkle it generously with glitter.
If you only want the imprint filled with glitter, allow the get-go coat of Mod Podge to dry completely. Then add a generous second coat to the inside of the paw print and sprinkle information technology generously with glitter.
String a ribbon through the pigsty to hang your ornament.
If you desire you can adhere an extra ribbon or bow necktie to the decoration using hot glue.

Our motion picture night watching The Clandestine Life of Pets was then much fun! And our paw print salt dough ornaments are adorable! Information technology'due south such an crawly keepsake to exist able to pull out Chase's ornament each yr to hang on the Christmas tree! And we'll proceed on hanging Gidget's ornament too considering it'southward just so darn cute!

If yous're looking for more than fun and like shooting fish in a barrel Christmas decoration ideas, you can cheque out our Melted Bead Ornaments. These are so simple to make, and they look beautiful!!