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Cookie
Cutters
Gift Ideas
- Place a heart-shaped
candle holder (glass or tin) inside a cookie cutter (such
as a teddy bear) and fill with potpourri. Wrap in cellophane
and tie with curly ribbon. Makes a wonderful and appreciated
gift for the top of a dresser or nightstand.
- Add to flower
arrangements (baby rattle cookie cutter for new babies,
for example).
- Attach to
a decorative ribbon on a wrapped package for birthdays,
holidays, showers, all special occasions as a little something
extra - children especially enjoy this!
- Use as a stencil
to make gift tags.
- Use book,
apple, etc. cookie cutters to create a teacher's Collage
Mat Frame.
- Paint jars,
use Gingerbread cookie cutter to trace and cut out of cardstock
and print gingerbread cookie recipe on it. Mix up a batch
of the dry ingredients for gingerbread cookies and place
inside jar, closing top tightly. Add recipe card and gingerbread
cookie cutter on some Jute or curly ribbon, wrapping it
around the lip of the jar. (This idea can be used to make
mini jar party favors).
- Wrap a cookie
cutter filled with homemade fudge or Rice Krispies/Marshmallows
with cellophane and curly ribbon for party favors and memorable
gifts.
- Make fudge
on a cookie sheet and use cookie cutter to make fun shaped
candies.
- Use as a template
for picture frames using recycled paper.
- Use to sponge
and decoupage on flower pots, cookie jars, etc.
- Give as napkin
rings with a set of napkins for a bridal shower.
- Cut out squares
of carpet, paint both sides, making them different colors,
and make a mobile for a baby's crib.
- Use cookie
cutters to make trinket boxes by tracing the inside of the
cutter for the bottom on stiff cardboard or poster board,
adding a strip of the same cardboard about 2" wide around
the edges. Then trace the outside of the cutter adding a
strip about 1" wide to make the lid. Cover with fabric and/or
add appliqués, sequins, beads, glitter, etc.
- Bird Treats
-- cut out shapes from bread and hang by strings in the
trees.
- Cut out shapes
using Fimo modeling material.
- Use as a stencil
on wood to cut-out and paint.
- Use as a mold
for cinnamon dough to make refrigerator magnets.
- Cut out shapes
from clay to make a wind chime. (Get the pieces fired at
a by-the-hour ceramics shop).
- Cut out ceramic
shapes and turn the edges up to make candy dishes. (Fire
and glaze).
- Cut our ceramic
shapes to make Christmas tree ornaments. (Fire and glaze).
- Use mini cookie
cutter wrapped in red silk ribbon, add a sprig of holly
and a bow to make a holiday pin to wear on your winter coat.
- Thank You
or Christmas gifts children can make for their teachers:
Using holiday cutters, help children make some homemade
gifts for their teachers. Place the cookie cutters as flat
as you can get them on parchment paper. Melt some white
chocolate and pour them into the cutters. Working quickly,
add festive sprinkles or M&M's to the melted chocolate
in each cookie cutter. Once the chocolate hardens (about
5 minutes?), cut off any extra chocolate that may have oozed
out the bottom. Place your creation in a clear cellophane
bag, tie it up with a bow and add a homemade gift tag you
child has created and written to the teacher.
- Make felt
cut-out drink coasters.
- the two halves
of the two candles together. Let cool completely candles.
Without wicks, you have scented wax potpourri shapes.
- Use to make
Salt Dough figures.
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