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November 15, 2018 · 18 Comments

Making Ornaments from Seasoning Shakers

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I was recently challenged to making unique ornaments out of salt and pepper shakers.  I came up with a few fun ideas to share with you.  Side note, they’d make great gifts this holiday season and fun for kids to make too.

This is my first shaker.

I started by pulling off the lid and putting fishing line through the holes so I’d have a way to hang it.

I then hot glued a little boy throwing a snowball figurine onto the bottom of the shaker.

I added fake snow balls to the bottom. I wanted to give the illusion that he was surrounded by the snowballs he was going to throw.

I added a small ornament of the famous red truck hauling a tree to the top of the ornament.

For my other matching shaker – I attached the string through the holes, added some Epsom salt to the bottom of the shaker, placed 3 mini pine cone ornaments into the jar on top of the Epsom salt. I hot glued a little twine around the lid, and topped it with a mini pine cone on the lid.

For my second set of shakers –

I hot glued a dab of glue onto some wax paper and placed a white bead on it. I then hot glued a total of 3 beads together to make a snowman.

I peeled the beads off the wax paper and now my snowman had a base. I drew a face on my snowman with permanent markers.

I placed Epsom salt in the shaker, and placed the snowman into the Epsom salt.

I added a couple confetti snowflakes on the bottom, and I hot glued a mini snowman hat onto the top. The hat was a clip meant to clip onto presents and such. I pulled off the clip before hot gluing it onto the lid. To hang it – I made a loop of fishing line, and I hot glued it onto the lid before hot gluing the hat onto the lid.

For my other shaker, I placed some Epsom salt onto the bottom of the shaker, hot glued some mini bulbs together and place them in the shaker. I hot glued on silver ribbon to the lid, and I painted the top of the lid with silver nail polish. I hot glued one more bulb to the top and tied fishing line through the bulb to hang it.

I turned this fake light bulb into a snow globe of sorts. I filled it with water, added 2 google eyes, 1 piece of orange ribbon cut like a triangle, and 5 mini pom poms. I added a label that said “melted snowman”.

I found this plastic snow globe at Dollar Tree, I brought it home, cut a photo into a circle shape, put it inside, added some buffalo snow to the base, screwed on the bottom, and hot glued silver ribbon to the base.

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  1. Stephanie says

    November 15, 2018 at 7:49 am

    Okay, these are absolutely adorable and they look like so much fun to make 🙂 You’re amazing, my friend 🙂

    Happy day to you. Hugs! Stephanie-The Enchanting Rose

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    • Chas says

      November 15, 2018 at 1:19 pm

      Thank you so much Stephanie, you are just so sweet my friend 🙂 Sending hugs back to you

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  2. Suzie Olsen says

    November 15, 2018 at 7:32 pm

    These are so cute!

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    • Chas says

      November 15, 2018 at 9:00 pm

      Thank you so much Suzie 🙂

      Reply
  3. LindaS says

    November 16, 2018 at 8:39 am

    These are so cute! I actually have a box of the tall kind that I’ve been saving. Great ideas and inspiration.

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    • Chas says

      November 16, 2018 at 1:07 pm

      Thanks so much Linda and love that you have some you have been saving. Oh to get the creative juices flowing – hugs to you

      Reply
  4. Christine says

    November 22, 2018 at 6:22 am

    These look fabulous. Thanks for sharing!

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    • Chas says

      December 5, 2018 at 5:00 pm

      Thank you so much Christine

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  5. Michelle Leslie says

    November 22, 2018 at 7:14 am

    OMW Chas, I absolutely adore these ornaments of yours. Such a brilliant idea. Who ever challenged you to make these deserves a medal. So cool

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    • Chas says

      November 22, 2018 at 2:46 pm

      Thank you so much Michelle, you are just so sweet. Happy Thanksgiving!

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  6. Gail says

    November 22, 2018 at 2:44 pm

    These are the cutest ornaments, ever, Chas! Each salt shaker is so unique! I bet you had lots of fun deciding how to decorate them!

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    • Chas says

      November 22, 2018 at 2:47 pm

      Thank you so very much Gail, it was so much fun to mix and match ideas. I didn’t even make all the ideas that came to mind. You are so kind. Happy Thanksgiving!

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  7. Amy says

    November 22, 2018 at 7:20 pm

    These are adorable! I don’t even think I could pick a favorite. Thanks so much for sharing!

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    • Chas says

      November 23, 2018 at 6:56 am

      Thank you so much Amy. I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

      Reply
  8. Emily says

    December 5, 2018 at 4:52 pm

    These are all so cute! And so many different ideas, too! Thanks for sharing at Merry Monday. I’m going to include these in my Party Features next week 🙂

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    • Chas says

      December 5, 2018 at 5:01 pm

      Thank you so much Emily. Thanks for the feature and thanks for hosting a wonderful place for all of us to share our creations.

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  9. Amy says

    September 25, 2020 at 7:07 pm

    What darling Christmas ornaments. I think that I may try making some with my granddaughters (or maybe I will just share the post with my daughter and she can make them with her daughters)!

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    • Chas says

      September 26, 2020 at 6:38 am

      Thank you so much Amy, I really love that idea and what memories you’ll build!

      Reply

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