How to Make Clay Conversation Hearts
Have fun crafting these adorable clay conversation hearts! This beginner-friendly Valentine’s Day project is perfect for both kids and adults.
Yield: 2 clay conversation hearts
Cost: $2
Equipment
- Clay roller (or rolling pin)
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Make the clay hearts
- Cover your surface with parchment paper or plastic wrap to stop the clay from sticking.Break off a 2 inch ball of air dry clay. Condition the ball of clay, squeezing it in your hands until it's soft.
- Roll out the clay to 1/2 inch thick. We used a clay roller, but a regular rolling pin works too.
- Push a small heart-shaped cookie cutter into the clay. Our cookie cutter is about 1 inch in size.
- Lift the cookie cutter straight up and gently push the clay heart out.
- Repeat to make a second heart (or however many you'd like).
- Dip your fingertip in water and smooth out the edges and surface of the hearts.
Step 3: Add lettering
- Use small alphabet stamps to press words into the clay hearts.
- Allow the clay to dry overnight.
Step 4: Paint the clay hearts
- Apply a small amount of acrylic paint over the letters on the heart.
- Wipe the paint off with a paper towel. Paint should stay in the imprinted letters and get mostly removed from the flat surface of the heart. Let the paint dry.
- Repeat, adding a different colour to the second heart.Paint one heart at a time, adding paint to one and wiping it off before moving to the next. Otherwise, too much paint may stay in place as it dries.
- Add a wet paintbrush to watercolour paint that matches the acrylic paint and mix it around to get colour on your brush.
- Paint all the surfaces of the clay heart with watercolour paint - front, sides, and back.
- Repeat, using a different colour on the second heart. Allow the paint to dry.
- Your clay conversation hearts are complete!
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Notes
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