Homemade Clay Recipe: Pumpkin Pie Spice Ornaments

It’s time to change up our mantle garland. We have made Easter ornaments, 4th of July Bunting, Summer flip flops garland. In order to embrace the pumpkin season, we made pumpkin pie spice clay. It smelled fantastic and made a wonderful canvas for quick art activities.

Materials

• Homemade clay
• Leaf cookie cutters
• Acrylic Paint
• Glitter -optional

The children had a great time using leaf cookie cutters to cut out several shapes

This exercise was great for their developing fine motor skills.

The fragrance was fantastic and the kids enjoyed the whole process. For every new season we create new decorations for our mantle and the kids take pride in seeing their work on display.

We added holes using straws to help in making a garland.

It took a day for the clay to dry and then it was painting time. Honestly the kids painted a few even before they dried.

My 3 year old enjoyed painting her own clay leaf. Choosing a thick brush seemed to be the best situation since just a drop of paint on a thick brush was enough to cover an entire leaf.

Good dose of glitter should always accompany paint.

The colorful sparkly leaves and acorns were a beautiful sight!

All the beautiful clay leaves all glamed up!

Homemade Clay Recipe : Pumpkin Spice Clay

2 cups baking soda

1 cup cornstarch

1-1.5 cups of water

Pumpkin Pie Spice – add until you are satisfied with the scent.

Add cornstarch, baking soda and water to a saucepan on medium heat on a stove top. Cook and stir until it starts to bubble. The mixture should thicken up pretty past. Don’t let it stick to the sides. Keep stirring until the mixtures comes together. Turn off the heat and start kneading by hand. You will have some yummy, fragrant homemade clay.

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