Recently, we whipped up some homemade clay using a simple clay recipe the other day. We made pumpkin spice fall ornaments. Continuing with the same theme, we made some fun and cute little beads for fine motor play through threading and jewelry making.

We followed the recipe mentioned in our previous post and made 3 gorgeous colors!  I used gel food colors to get the color I wanted. The orange, yellow and purple were vibrant!

Since this was technically “supposed” to be a surprise for the kids { I was thinking Halloween jewelry on Halloween day!} I rolled out tiny bead-size ball and make small holes using toothpicks.

 However with 2 kids under 5 I couldn’t obviously complete a project in 1 sitting.  Since I’m a horrible “hider” of things the project was spotted easily and the children wanted in. Sure. It became a fun afternoon family project. My almost 5 year old used toothpicks to stack her tiny balls and made an ice cream cone and a squid-like looking thing. { shh.. I can’t use such a tone- she gets offended when I can’t identify her creations properly haha)

We also flattened a few balls and made “flower” like impressions on them. We actually used mini pumpkins table scatter for this purpose.

We left the clay to air dry for a day. A few cracked but it did not matter since we were primarily using them for a fun threading activity.

Even the 3 year old got really into it- simply because she “made” her own beads! Those colorful clay beads were perfect for her to enjoy a such an enriching fine motor activity.

My 5 year old was eager to use the pumpkin pressed “medallions” in one of the necklaces.

She made a bracelet and I helped her with tying the knots.

Here are the fine jewelry the kids threaded. Cute!

We are thinking of wearing these when we go trick or treating!

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