Craft Cookie Cutter Top Tips

Tip 1

Kids can get creative with Cookie Cutters and draw around them like a stencil and use to colour in.
For adults cookie cutters can give the well proportioned shapes and clean edges needed for creating decorative stencils.

Tip 2

Use a cookie cutter as a stencil to create invitations to suit your party theme i.e. use the T Shirt Cookie Cutter to create invitations for a T Shirt Painting Party.

Tip 3

Make a mobile by tracing around your favourite designs, cutting them out, decorating with sequins and Glitter glue.

Tip 4

Children love playing in the sand, and experimenting with how objects make shapes. Use any of our Plastic Wilton Cookie Cutters for fun and educational sand play.

Tip 5

Cookie cutters work with tremendous effects on Polymer Clay You can start with the simple cut out shape and embellish it and add detail for your own personal design statement.

Tip 6

Make bath time, sponge shapes by tracing around the cookie cutter and cutting out. This works well using brightly coloured sponge using cutters from our Nautical Cookie Cutters range.

Tip 7

Use to create a potato stamp for children to paint with. Cut a potato in half and press chosen shape into the flat end. Cut away the outside of the potato leaving the shape to be stamped intact. Works well with cookie cutters with simple lines i.e. Gingerbread Cookie Cutters

Tip 8

Handmade soap is beautiful and very popular Create individual soaps by pouring melted soap into a Cookie Cutter pressed down on foil. Leave to cool completely before removing.

Tip 9

Mould Dinosaur Crayons using our Dinosaur Cookie Cutter or whatever cookie cutter shape you choose. Place all old crayons minus paper in an old pan and warm gently to melt. Once liquid, pour carefully into the cookie cutter mounted on tin foil, pressing down to prevent the wax from leaking out. Tap crayon out when set.

Tip 10

Create unique, individual candles. At Halloween make Spider Candles. Simply pour warmed wax into the cookie cutter like a mould. Ensure that you have sealed the bottom with tin foil. Pop out when candle has set.

Tip 11

Our huge range of Cookie Cutters can be used to create patchwork pieces, and fabric pieces perfect for Applique and clothing decoration.

Tip 12

Mould Paper Mache pulp to make wonderful decorations. Make Christmas Tree decorations with our Christmas Cookie Cutters. Simply place the moist pulp inside the cookie cutter, then remove and allow to dry. Decorate with paint and glitter as required etc.