Today we are making homemade necklaces! Kids of all ages will love making these homemade necklaces. The best part is, they’re fall themed! You can add your favorite fall designs to these clay pendants. This low cost fall craft is great for fall or Thanksgiving and you can make them at home or in the classroom!
Fall Themed Homemade Necklaces
These necklaces are not only budget-friendly using only a few art supplies, but really, kids of all ages, younger children and older children can make their own jewelry. This is a great tutorial for beginner jewelry makers and for those who haven’t ever really used clay.
You could also give these homemade necklaces as a gift, to your best friend, or make them for any season or holiday! You can decorate these DIY necklaces anyway you wanted. Making handmade jewelry is so much fun. So without further ado, let’s make some fall themed homemade necklaces.
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Related: We made camping themed DIY pendant necklaces using homemade clay beads!
Supplies Needed To Make Festive Homemade Necklaces
How To Make Your Own Fall and Thanksgiving Themed Homemade Necklace
Just follow these step-by-step instructions to make your own homemade necklace!
Step 1
Roll out 2 balls of clay. They should be the size of a large gumball (like the ones you get in the 25 cent machine.)
Step 2
Roll it out until it is an oval shape. Use your toothpick to poke a hole in the top.
Step 3
Allow your pendant to air dry before painting. We painted our pendants a neutral color.
Step 4
Paint your favorite fall designs onto your pendant. We made a fall pendant with acorns and leaves.
And another with pumpkin pie, turkey, corn.
Craft Notes:
After you follow the easy steps to make the pendant, you can look at Pinterest for inspiration for decoration ideas.
Step 5
We added some “pizazz” and used Elmer Glue to outline our leaves and acorn and added glitter. We added it 1 item at a time to avoid glitter mixing.
Step 6
Cut a piece of twine and loop it through the hole. Tie into a knot. And you’re done!
Ways To Make This Homemade Necklace Craft Your Own!
Just like all our other crafts, you can turn this craft into your own by making modifications to fit your needs! You can do things like:
- Use colorful yarn instead of twine.
- Color the pendants different colors.
- Paint different items like trees, animals, different Thanksgiving foods, etc.
- Don’t add glitter.
- Add more glitter.
- Use stickers to decorate your pendant.
- You can use paint pens to decorate instead of free handing your art.
- Use a chain necklace if you want.
- Add more charms you have around the house or faux pearls and make it extra fancy.
- Add wooden beads to your pendant jewelry or add other beads to make a beaded necklace.
- Mix in some essential oils to your clay to make a necklace that smells good.
- Make a shorter necklace or longer necklace.
- Use a leather cord.
- You can use polymer clay and bake it so it’s more hard and less pliable.
Our Experience Making Homemade Necklaces
My kids really wanted to make more necklaces after we made our camping necklaces, so I had to sit down and think what we could do. And we didn’t have any fall themed necklaces. But one wanted nature and the other wanted Thanksgiving, so we made both! Each got the handmade pendant necklaces that they wanted.
It was a lot of fun, and I think we may do this for all the seasons. Not only do kids get a piece of costume jewelry they can use for pretend play and dress up or even wear to school (remember the statement necklace, makes me think of those), but they get to think about their favorite things about fall! Obviously one likes nature and the other likes food. Personally, I like both! I hope you had as much fun making these as my family did!
Homemade Necklace Craft For Kids
Let's make homemade necklaces that are fall and Thanksgiving themed! This budget-friendly craft is great for kids young kids and older kids alike!
Materials
- Air Dry Clay
- Acrylic Paint
- Paintbrushes
- Glitter
- Elmer’s Glue
- Toothpicks
- Twine
- Scissors
Instructions
- Roll out 2 balls of clay
- Roll it out until it is an oval shape.
- Use your toothpick to poke a hole in the top.
- Allow your pendant to air dry before painting.
- Paint your favorite fall designs onto your pendant. We made a fall pendant with acorns and leaves and another with pumpkin pie, turkey, corn.
- We added some “pizazz” and used Elmer Glue to outline our leaves and acorn and added glitter. We added it 1 item at a time to avoid glitter mixing.
- Cut a piece of twine and loop it through the hole. Tie into a knot. And you’re done!
More Fall Fun From Kids Activities Blog
- We have so many fall crafts!
- Get your crayons ready for these fall coloring pages!
- Or download and print these leaf coloring pages that double as a leaf template for leaf shaped crafts.
- Kids can make their own leaf drawing with this simple how to draw a leaf step by step guide.
- Fall activity sheets are sure to keep your little ones entertained.
- These tree coloring pages are full of autumn leaves in need of some fall color.
- I made a list of fall crafts your whole family will love!
- Cool and rainy days call for fall crafts for kids
- This pumpkin book craft is sure to be a hit!
- Pumpkin activities are really “gourd” ways to teach your little ones!
- Go find some fall leaves on our nature scavenger hunt that works great even for younger kids because no reading is required.
- The 50 fall activities for kids are all of our favorites!
- Looking for fall crafts with cinnamon sticks? Check out these cinnamon pumpkin crafts!
- Try out this preschool level jack-o-lantern craft!
- Check out this preschool apple tree craft!
- Check out this pine cone craft! It’s perfect for fall.
- We have a simple Autumn craft using fall leaves to make a tree!
- Make easy to clean up confetti out of leaves!
- Make clay fall themed pies!
- Try making these DIY fall picture frames.
- Have you checked out our magnetic fall craft?
How did your homemade necklaces turn out? What fall things did you put on them?
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