Easy, cheap, heart necklaces made from clay |

Using a two dollar, two ounce block of Sculpey oven bake clay, we made these heart necklaces painted with acrylic paint. They were great fun, super easy, and will make fun gifts for my girls to give their friends for Valentine’s Day.

Here’s how we did it.

First I helped the girls roll the clay out flat, on a table using child-size rolling pins. Next we used small heart shaped cookie cutters to make the hearts and the kids placed them onto a cookie sheet. I used a wooden skewer to poke a hole in the top of them to make the necklaces. My five-year-old needed help getting this done right. But my oldest daughter could do it all on her own. Make sure you make the hole big enough, through the entire thickness of the clay, to get two layers of string through the hole at one time.

Then bake the clay hearts on 275 for 15 minutes. After they cool you can paint them. We painted ours with Valentine themed colors. We also made round shaped beads for bracelets.

After the paint is dry, you’re ready to make it into a necklace! I doubled over my string and put the loop end through the hole of the heart. I put the two ends through the loop, making a loose slip knot where the two humps on the heart come together for the heart to hang evenly (see picture to know what I mean). Then just tie ends of the string in a simple bow, making the string plenty big enough to fit over a child’s head. And there you have it!

Here are some more pictures from our project.