VIDEO: Make cookie cutters yourself

Fancy cookie cutters are expensive and only available in specialty stores. Many cookie cutters from the trade are probably quite pretty, but often also impractical.

Create your own cookie cutters

1. To begin with, choose a motif that is quite simple. You should save too filigree motifs for your cookie cutters for the time when you have a little practice.
2. You should also choose rather large motifs for your first cookie cutters. The large cookie cutters do a little more work, but are easier to make yourself.
3. If you have children, motifs like a big shark, a whale, a seal or a treasure chest are easy to make yourself. Big snowmen, stars or a pirate ship are also very easy to make yourself.
4. Find the right motifs for your own cookie cutters in books, magazines or on the Internet. Print out the design and enlarge or reduce the design for future cookie cutters.


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5. Cut out the motif directly on the outer edges.
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6. Place the design on a soft piece of wood of the appropriate size.
7. If necessary, glue the motif for your cookie cutter. with a bit of double-sided tape on the wood.
8. Now hammer in a nail at every corner and every 10 mm.

Make cookie cutters individually yourself

1. Now place the sheet metal plate in front of you and cut a strip 1.2 cm wide with the ruler and the cutter knife. Run the cutter, depending on the thickness of the sheet metal, 3 to 5 times over the cutting edge.
2. Now bend the sheet metal backwards at the cut edge. The cut sheet metal strip will now loosen.
3. Place the sheet metal strip around the nails of your design. Place the sheet metal strip as tightly as you can. This forms the sheet metal strip and takes on the shape of the motif.
4. Now loosen the metal strip and cut if necessary cut off the excess length with tin snips.
5. The large motifs will not stay in the shape you would like in some places. In order to stabilize the cookie cutter, look at which areas the cookie cutter needs to be stabilized.
6. Then cut pieces of appropriate length with the tin snips. Make sure to include the soldering points in the dimensioning.
7. Now solder the stabilization strips to your cookie cutters in the appropriate places.

Now you can start cutting out your very own cookies.

1. Solder the end pieces together.