Fall Themed Homemade Necklaces For Kids

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!

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How did your homemade necklaces turn out? What fall things did you put on them?