We love salt dough. It is a brilliant art and craft material and we love creating with it. It is not just a kids craft material and to demonstrate that we wanted to share with you our heart-shaped salt dough jewellery which is the perfect craft for preschoolers through to teens.
We used our go to salt dough recipe and the salt dough jewellery was made with half the recipe.
How to make Salt Dough Jewellery
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Materials
- Salt dough
- cookie cutters or mould
- straws
- Ribbon or thread
- broach pins
- Acyclic paint
- Glue
- Glitter
- Sealer
Prepare the salt dough as per our previous post. We decided to make heart-shaped salt dough jewellery and used both cookie cutters and a heart-shaped mould.
Roll it out (we use a silicone cooking mat) to around 3/4 cm thick.
Cut out your heart shapes using a cookie cutter
Make a hole at the top using a straw which will become the hole for your thread or ribbon.
We also used the heart shaped mould to make some pendants, by pressing the dough into the mould.
We then placed the shaped and cut dough into the oven which was set at 120 degrees centigrade, gas 1/2 or 250 fahrenheit.
After 40 minutes we removed the heart shapes from the mould and placed a small piece of metal in an n shape and pushed it into the hearts to make an eye for the ribbon or thread.
We then placed them back into the oven and cooked them for the remaining part of the three hours.
Once the salt dough had been removed and cooled the boys painted them with acrylic paint.
We then allowed the paint to dry before the boys coated them with a glitter and modgepodge mixture and again allowing them to dry.
Once the hearts were dry we glue brooch pins on the back of the hearts that we didn’t put holes in and then the boys raided my ribbon stash to make cords for the pendants.
We have loads of other heart and valentine crafts over at Pinterest.
Visit Jen Walshaw’s profile on Pinterest.
If you are making these with older kids then you can get so much more elaborate and use icing stamps to decorate your hearts.
You can also use lace and doilies to make a beautiful imprint too.
Such a great gift idea for Valentine’s Day, some thing the children can get involved in
Love the idea of adding them to a teddy. Emmy would love this, although for herself as “boys are yucky” I’m told
This is such a good idea and the end results look brilliant. Definitely something I will be trying out with my children.
I really love things like this and with valentines coming what a perfect little craft! x
oh how nice your boy is quite a crafter 🙂
oh how nice your boy is quite a crafter 🙂 Like his mum
So lovely to see that your son is interested in crafts. The hearts look brilliant. Perfect for Valentines day.
They look fab Jen and the teddy is a great model although I know a jewelllery loving girl if you ever want a new model 😉
That’s a lovely idea for the children to get involved with. I know my daughter’s Brownie pack would like to do this.
I really like this idea. My little girl and i are crazy about love hearts.
We are going to make and decorate some star shaped ones also for the tree at christmas x
Lovely idea. These look like a really fun Valentine’s project.
Lovely idea and so easy to make. Thank you for the inspiration.
I love this idea, so easy to do and it looks brilliant x
These are great! Thanks for linking up to this weeks #parentingpinitparty
Minxy in particular loves to make jewellery. She has had a few kits before that she has really enjoyed. We’ve used salt dough too for Christmas decorations x
Eliza would love making these – she is just getting into her jewellery!
What a nice way to create some precious keepsakes! Thanks for linking up with the Frugal Family, Evelyne
These look really lovely! Perfect gift for a sweetheart (or mummy!)! Thanks for linking up. #Weloveweekends.xx
These are so pretty Jen, love all the valentines crafts you’ve been doing 🙂 Thanks for joining in with Tuesday Tutorials #pintorials
oh this looks like so much fun!! x
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After the salt dough I made last week, I’m getting a bit handy with it. I really want a sparkly heart now!!
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What a lovely activity to do with the kids.
Lovely post – thank you for linking up with We Love Weekends