Clay Heart Craft For Valentine’s Day

Today we are making a clay heart craft that doubles as a Valentine’s day gift! Kids of all ages will love making this super cute and festive clay heart craft. It’s fun, easy, and a budget-friendly Valentine’s day craft that can be made at home or in the classroom! And the best part is, you can decorate your clay heart anyway you want.

Clay Heart Craft

Using salt dough, we will be making a clay heart dish. This dish can be used for yourself or given as a Valentine’s day gift. Kids will be able to practice fine motor skills by sculpting and painting their DIY dish.

This heart craft is not only simple, but perfect for younger kids and older kids. And there are so many different ways you could decorate your clay heart. So without further ado, let’s make our clay heart dish!

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Supplies Needed To Make A Clay Heart

Salt Dough Recipe:

If your dough isn’t coming together add a little more water. If it’s too wet, add a little more flour.

Other Supplies:

How To Make A Clay Heart Dish

Step 1

Mix together the flour and salt and add the warm water and mix until you have a dough formed.

Step 2

Roll out your dough until it is 1/4-1/2 inch thick and cut out a heart and gently squish the sides up.

Step 3

Bake your heart for 2-4 hours at 200 degrees F or you can let them air dry for 72 hours.

Decorating Your Clay Heart

Step 1

Paint a red heart around the inside.

Step 2

Paint the inside of the red heart white.

Step 3

Paint the border with a metallic paint.

Step 4

Paint flowers inside the heart.

Pink flowers on the left:

We dabbed the paint to almost a round shape to make little flowers and connected their stems and added leaves.

Purple flower:

Using purple paint, dab your paint brush to make a cone shape. Add some white paint on top blending the purple and white in. Add a green stem and 1 leaf.

Yellow flower:

This one is supposed to kind of be a sun flower. Make a star shape using your yellow paint. Dab brown paint in the middle to make another star. Add a stem and 2 leaves.

Pink flower on the right:

Using pink paint, make a star shape, but keep the edges rounded. Dab a dot of white in the middle, add a green stem and 2 leaves.

And now you’re done!

Ways To Make This Clay Heart Craft Your Own

Just like our other Valentine’s day crafts you can make this craft your own by making changes like:

• Decorate the inside by stamping round beads to make colorful circles instead of flowers.
• Brush the inside with colors using a fan paintbrush to make an abstract heart.
• Poke holes in the side with a wooden skewer before baking and weave a ribbon in and out of it, making a pretty loop around your bowl.
• Use stamps to stamp pictures in your heart.
• Color Valentine’s day coloring pages and mod podge the pictures in the bowl.
• Don’t fold up the top and make clay heart ornaments for the holiday season.
• Use air dry clay instead of salt dough.
• Use a bowl of water to smooth out the edges so everything is super straight and need so it looks less like a handmade valentine.
• Make smaller heart shapes and make multiple plates.

Our Experience With This Clay Heart Craft For Valentine’s Day

I’m always looking for creative ideas for Valentine’s day that don’t involve candy and sweets…though we like those too. But sometimes you need more than junk on a holiday, and this came to mind as it can be the perfect gift for family and friends!

My kids loved making these heart shaped dishes. Though not all of them decorated with flowers like I did. My son used his best cars stickers, and my other little one added small heart stickers on all the sides of the heart. And my youngest basically finger painted. And that’s okay, because it’s their heart and they can do what they want with it! I hope your family enjoyed this clay heart craft as much as we did!

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How did your clay heart craft turn out?