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Thumbprint Heart Jewelry Dish – Gifts Kids Can Make

January 16, 2015

Our 31 Days of Love series continues. Today we share a lovely little Fingerprint Craft from Stephanie at Modern Parents Messy Kids. This is a wonderful keepsake craft, that doubles up nicely as a Valentine’s Day gift or Mother’s Day gift. So be inspired and make it for Mum’s birthday or for another special day. Gorgeous.

Lots of more Gifts That Kids Can Make ideas here!

Fingerprint Crafts - gift ideas

Hi guys, I’m Steph – mom to three young children, a lifestyle and parenting blogger, and the ย founder of Modern Parents Messy Kids (MPMK for short).ย MPMK was voted Best Craft Blog in Parents Magazine and has been featured by Theย Huffington Post, Martha Stewart, Rachael Ray and more. Through the site, Stephanie and herย team provide daily inspiration to thousands of parents on organizational projects for the home,ย healthy kid-friendly recipes, engaging playtime ideas, parenting tips, and ideas on what to doย with all those family photos!
Iโ€™m so excited to be sharing this project with you guys today as Iโ€™m totally smitten with how itย turned out. Although these sweet Thumbprint Heart ย Jewelry dishes are the perfect thing toย make for someone special on alentineโ€™s Day, we actually made ours for another reasonโ€ฆ Ourย beloved nanny is leaving us this week and words really canโ€™t express how sad we are to see herย go.
She came to us about a month before my youngest child (now nearly 10 months old) was bornย and has been such a wonderful addition to our family. Although she only stays with the kids forย a few hours in the afternoon while I work in my home office, I still couldnโ€™t imagine entrustingย their care to anyone else. She has truly been such a blessing.ย Needless to say, we couldnโ€™t send her off without something special to remember us by. So weย decided to make these brilliant marbled clay jewelry dishes via A Beautiful Mess. To make the project aย little more personal, we added hearts made with two thumbprints of each child.

If youโ€™d like to make one (or two or three) of these simple little dishes, hereโ€™s what youโ€™ll needโ€ฆ

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Fingerprint Jewelry Dish – Materials

  • Sculpey oven bake clay in white, pewter, black, pink, and yellowย You can find Sculpey Clayย in the USย hereย and in the UK here (affiliate links)
  • Small oven-safe bowl
  • Gold paint
  • Rolling pin
  • Large can, jar, bowl, etc. to trace a circle around
  • exacto knifeย (US Readers – UK Readers, get yours here)
  • Sculpey finishing glazeย (US Readers – UK Readers, get yours here)

Fingerprint Jewelry Dish –ย How To

Head over to theย original tutorial for all the details on how to create the basic marbled dish. Itโ€™s so well done Iย donโ€™t feel the need to re-write it here.

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As you can see, the one extra step we included was using each childโ€™s thumb to make a heart inย the dish before placing it in the bowl to bake.
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Once the dishes were baked and fully cooled, I simply dry-brushed a few light layers of goldย paint over the hearts. This really helped to highlight the thumbprints and make them stand out inย the dish.

Here are a few more tips I learned along the way:

  1. Use a lot more white clay than any other color for a truly modern marbled effect.
  2. I used a standard soup bowl as my mold for my largest dish and was really pleasedย with the size – perfect for bracelets and/or necklaces.
  3. I used a sparkly pewter color of Sculpey clay (instead of the plain gray suggested)ย and LOVED the sparkle that ended up running throughout the dish.
  4. I couldnโ€™t find gold liquid gilding so I just used standard gold craft paint for the edgesย and the hearts and it turned out great.
  5. Donโ€™t skip the glaze! This really transformed the look of the dishes from kind-of-craftyย to really gorgeous.

Thatโ€™s pretty much it but feel free to experiment!

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We played with the size of dishes as well as the form (one with a precisely cut circle and oneย more free-formed, draped over the bottom of a mason jar). I also liked the look of painting justย the trim gold on the larger dish but the entire underside gold on the smaller ring dish.

This is one of those projects that really can be done a million different ways – and it doesnโ€™t takeย long at all to complete, even with the kids helping. I really hope youโ€™ll try it!

If you liked this craft, you might also like these MPMK Projects…

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DIY “You Can Call Me Queen Bee”
Mug

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or browse theย 31 Days of Love posts here!

Or check here for a set of NO CANDY Valentine’s Day Gifts to friends.

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Filed Under: Gifts That Kids Can Make, Kids Craft, Mothers Day, Valentines 5 Comments

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  1. Vanessa Cato says

    February 12, 2015 at 10:35 pm

    This is a great craft and very easy to do. Today I told the story of St Valentine to a 2 year old, a 3 year old and a 4 year old, then we made these dishes for their Mums. We cut out heart shapes for the bowls and balanced them on a muffin pan. They came out really well. Thank-you for the idea. We only put on one coat of glaze and omitted the gold rims, but the children loved them and so did their mums.

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  2. Jessica says

    April 18, 2016 at 6:19 pm

    How much white clay would you say you used? I am wanting to make three dishes, and I currently have 4 oz. of white. I’m wondering if I should pick up more before starting? I also have 2 oz of each the silver, black, yellow and pink.

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    • Red Ted Art says

      April 18, 2016 at 7:30 pm

      Eeep. This was a guest post, I am afraid, don’t exactly know how much you need for each bowl. So sorry :-/

      Reply

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