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Easy Salt Dough Keepsakes – Shell Pendant

June 10, 2022

Today we have a great and easy Summer Crafts for Preschoolers idea.

Turn your Sea Shell finds into super easy Salt Dough Shell Pendants.. a lovely holiday keepsake that toddlers, preschoolers nad kids can make! How we love 20 sea shell crafts!

Easy Shell Pendants. These are such easy and sweet and inexpensive shell pendants to make this summer. A wonderful summer craft for preschoolers, that make a great summer keepsake and is inexpensive and fun to make. Great little Mother's Day gift idea too. Love this darling shell craft for kids. #Shells #seashells #crafts #shellcrafts #beach
These fun and easy sea shell pendants were first shared in August 2014! And have been updated and republished for your convenience!

One of Pip Squeak’s favourite things is to collect SHELLS – LOTS of Shells. Every seaside we go to, she immediately sets off on a sea shell hunt – any size, big shells or small shells. Whole shells. Or broken shells. When we come home, she plays with the shells. Sorts them. Stacks them. Puts them in boxes. Takes them out of boxes… and asks me what we can MAKE with her shells.

We alread made a prett sea shell mobile (great for those broken shells) and have a lovely 20 shell crafts round up, showing our shell crab fridge magnets.

Today, we share our sea shell pendants – so quick and easy to make using our favourite coloured and EASY salt dough recipe. The coloured salt dough recipe is really quick and easy to make – they key is to try out different food colourings or different paints… we share what we like to use below!! (We have lots of lovely easy salt dough projects for you to explore).

You may also like these adorable Salydough and Sea Shell Turtles:

Collection of salt dough and sea shell turtle craft for kids to make at group

Similarly, you may love our Sea Glass Turtles:

salt dough crafts with sea glass

Sea Shell Pendant Salt Dough – materials:

Colour Saltdough Recipe
  • Small shells (whole or broken)
  • 2 cups of flour
  • 1 cup of salt
  • UPTO 1 cup of water
  • Food colouring or paint (we added a genrous knife tip of good quality food colouring gel)*
  • a tray
  • a muslin cloth to keep the saltdough damp if working in the Summer and outdoors

* we love using Sugarflair Food Colouring – get them in US here & in the UK here (affiliate links)

Easy Shell Pendants. These are such easy and sweet and inexpensive shell pendants to make this summer. A wonderful summer craft for preschoolers, that make a great summer keepsake and is inexpensive and fun to make. Great little Mother's Day gift idea too. Love this darling shell craft for kids. #Shells #seashells #crafts #shellcrafts #beach

Sea Shell Pendants – Coloured Salt Dough How To:

Check out our easy to follow Salt Dough Video Tutorial.. or follow the step by step instructions below!

Simple Colour Saltdough recipe

1) Begin by mixing your salt dough. Mix flour and salt and then slowly start adding your water. We added about half to 2/3s of the water to get basic salt dough mixed. Then divided into 7 portions. Add a generous amount of food colouring. Good quality will show up better once dried – we used a food colouring gel – get them in US here & in the UK here (affiliate links). If you use “lower quality”, add more colour and/ or you MAY have to varnished your finished product. When mixing in the food gel – you MAY get purple or red hands… do wash them inbetween mixing colours to avoid cross contamination. Also, if you knead your colour in, work on a surface that can be wiped clean of colour if need be!

Shell Crafts for Kids

2) Get your shells ready.

Easy Shell Pendants. These are such easy and sweet and inexpensive shell pendants to make this summer. A wonderful summer craft for preschoolers, that make a great summer keepsake and is inexpensive and fun to make. Great little Mother's Day gift idea too. Love this darling shell craft for kids. #Shells #seashells #crafts #shellcrafts #beach

3) Form little balls of salt dough. If it cracks, add a little water. Flatten it a little and press in your shell.

Easy Shell Pendants. These are such easy and sweet and inexpensive shell pendants to make this summer. A wonderful summer craft for preschoolers, that make a great summer keepsake and is inexpensive and fun to make. Great little Mother's Day gift idea too. Love this darling shell craft for kids. #Shells #seashells #crafts #shellcrafts #beach

4) Make a hole for hanging with a chopstick or similar. Make sure the hole is not too close to the edge, as it can break later.

Easy Shell Pendants. These are such easy and sweet and inexpensive shell pendants to make this summer. A wonderful summer craft for preschoolers, that make a great summer keepsake and is inexpensive and fun to make. Great little Mother's Day gift idea too. Love this darling shell craft for kids. #Shells #seashells #crafts #shellcrafts #beach

5) Let dry – turn a few times. We had a lovely hot Summers days.. so it dried by the end of the day. In Winter, I would put the salt dough in the oven at low heat (80C) and turn every 10-15min. Also be sure to “repoke” your hanging holes. As salt dough can spread and these can shut. The shells should stay securely.. if not, you can always glue them in place afterwards!

Colour saltdough recipe - vibrant and fun

6) If you are working on a hot day, keep your salt dough under a damp cloth to avoid it drying out.

Easy Shell Pendants. These are such easy and sweet and inexpensive shell pendants to make this summer. A wonderful summer craft for preschoolers, that make a great summer keepsake and is inexpensive and fun to make. Great little Mother's Day gift idea too. Love this darling shell craft for kids. #Shells #seashells #crafts #shellcrafts #beach

7) Once dry, thread up your shells and you are ready to wear your sea shell pendant!

Easy Shell Pendants. These are such easy and sweet and inexpensive shell pendants to make this summer. A wonderful summer craft for preschoolers, that make a great summer keepsake and is inexpensive and fun to make. Great little Mother's Day gift idea too. Love this darling shell craft for kids. #Shells #seashells #crafts #shellcrafts #beach

And wear!! (the kids were wearing theirs all day… but wouldn’t let me photograph them). I LOVE these little sea shell pendants. I think they are so simple, so cute and SO EASY to make. Great gifts for an auntie or a friend too!

You may also like these adorable Salydough and Sea Shell Turtles:

Collection of salt dough and sea shell turtle craft for kids to make at group

With many more great summer salt dough craft ideas here:

Salt dough ideas for kids

Check out our other 20+ sea shell craft ideas:

20 Shell Crafts

Why not check out the rest of our  Summer Crafts for Preschoolers?

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Comments

  1. Carol says

    August 13, 2014 at 12:51 am

    Just awesome… Looking forward to trying this dough recipe.

    Reply
  2. Lillie Hansen says

    April 15, 2015 at 5:34 pm

    Have to try it. I like the Sea Shell Necklace Idea and some of the others. Thanks so much for sharing!

    Reply
  3. Jamie Treadwell says

    April 28, 2015 at 7:07 pm

    Hi how can I print this activity

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      April 29, 2015 at 8:18 am

      I am afraid we don’t have a special “print” facility on this site.. sorry!

      Reply
  4. Diane Williams says

    September 14, 2018 at 9:04 pm

    hi, my pendants aren’t getting completely dry. I made 2 as a trial. One I put in the oven and had to put it in turning often for probably an hour. The other I let dry without the oven. Wasn’t a sunny day so not drying quickly. The biggest problem is it has been several days and I have them sitting on a paper plate. Whichever side is down seems to get a damp spot on it so I don’t think they are dry all the way through. When I turn it over, the next day, that side has a soft damp spot. What should I do?

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      September 15, 2018 at 4:51 pm

      Hello, yes this sometimes happens, and I confess, I am not sure why. I leave it, but make sure not to add any paint or varnish over the “damp spot” so it can dry some more over time. It is usually fine!

      Reply

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