Salt dough is inexpensive and easy. You can hand mold or shape with cookie cutters. Add beads or small stones or an imprint of a nature item or a (clean) stamp before baking if you wish. Paint after baking. Coat with Mod Podge when finished. Ours turned out really pretty this year. I was going to post a photo but apparently I need to update my Tappa Talk.
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Here we go. One other method is when they first come out of the oven you can use crayons on then while they are still hot. The star in the bottom left corner was made like that. My DD2 did some with tiny blue stones she found at the gem mine but she didn't want me to take them down to photograph