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DIY – CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT MADE FROM COLD PORCELAIN

Monday, December 13th, 2021

Many of you are now probably wondering, what is cold porcelain? Cold porcelain is also called fake porcelain and is an air-drying modeling clay that’s made of 3 ingredients. The name comes from the fact that the mass looks similar to porcelain.

Cold porcelain is ideal for making your own Christmas decoration. The white mass just looks really noble and with little effort you can create great decorative pieces that you can hang on the tree not just for the sake of the children.

You can use the cold porcelain to make e.g. Christmas tree ornaments as in this case, but also jewelry, figurines, decorations and much more.

Cold porcelain is the slightly more elegant variant of salt dough. It is wonderfully white, quick and easy – but you have to cook the dough.

Recipe for Cold Porcelain

You need:
450 g of baking soda
100 g of corn starch
100 – 150 ml of water
possibly acrylic paint
Pastry roller
Cookie cutters
Silicone mold
Straw or Toothpick

Step by step instructions:

Put all ingredients in a saucepan and heat the mixture while stirring. Take the pan off the stove when the ingredients start to set: The consistency should now quickly become very mushy. Keep stirring everything until a lumpy batter is formed. If the dough is too sticky, gradually add a little more cornstarch.
Let everything cool down a bit so you don’t burn your fingers. The mass should still be slightly warm during processing, this is the easiest way to process. The cold porcelain is slightly milky.
Roll out the mixture with a pastry roller. It shouldn’t get too thin, otherwise it could crack. Mine are about 0.5 cm high.
Cut out the shapes as you would when baking cookies.
Make a hole with a toothpick so you can hang it up later.
The cold porcelain must now air dry for approx. 2-3 days. Of course, it always
depends on how thick you rolled out the Christmas ornament.
Then thread a piece of string through the trailer and off to the ornament.

The dough keeps well in an airtight container in the refrigerator for about 3 weeks.

But be careful: Since the dough dries out quickly and becomes crumbly, it should be processed quickly. It is best to always put pieces that are not currently in use back in the airtight container.

When you have the feeling the dough is already to crumbly to use a cookie cuter, put it in silicone molds.

If you like, you can color the mass with food coloring before processing, which will create colorful pendants and figures in no time at all.

If you want to give the pendants a special touch, you can also use a stamp to emboss beautiful motifs on the surface before drying and then color them in with a touch-up pencil after drying.

I think the cold porcelain Christmas ornaments are really pretty! But personally I think the classic Salt dough are easier, especially if you want to include your kids. Find my recipe here.

How do you like the ornament? Which shape will you try? Write it to me in the comments

I hope you enjoyed this DIY.

I wish you a lot of fun doing it yourself and a Merry Christmas.