As we’re hosting a family Christmas I really wanted to add as many handmade touches as I could. This year I’ve made some super sweet clay tags to hang on everyone’s cracker. When they’ve finished with the cracker they can remove and keep their tag and hang it on the tree.

Equipment needed to make easy personalised clay tags:
Sculpey oven-bake clay
Small cookie cutters
Acrylic paint and brush
Small letter stamps

How to make easy personalised clay tags:

Roll out your Sculpey clay until it is 2-3mm thick. I rolled it between two sheets of greaseproof paper so it didn’t damage my rolling pin.

Cut out your shapes! I chose small stars for my gift tags and a tree and deer for the larger ones. Stamp your letter, date or phrase.

Make a small hole at the top of each shape if you want to hang them. Place on a baking sheet on a baking tray and bake for the required length of time.

The tags are not hard until they’ve completely dried so make sure you leave them to cool down properly.

I wanted to make sure the letter stood out so painted each letter with a small amount of acrylic paint. Leave to dry.

This year we made our own crackers from kits so we able to choose the gifts inside them. The personalised tags are a great way of remembering each person’s cracker. Hopefully they will be a lovely keepsake too.