Create Heart Necklaces with STAEDTLER FIMO Kids

20 January 2025

 

This Valentine’s Day, help your children create lasting memories with a fun and meaningful craft! Using STAEDTLER FIMO Kids, they can design adorable heart necklaces to share with their best friends. It’s a delightful way to celebrate friendship, spark creativity, and make keepsakes that will be cherished for years to come.

 

What you will need



How to do it

 

 

Step One:

Two portions of FIMO kids “pink” are required for the dark hearts. Shape into a ball and first press it flat by hand. Then roll out the mixture until it is smooth. To ensure that the rolled out FIMO is evenly thin, place two spacers (e.g. flat wooden sticks) on the left and right next to the mixture on the table and then roll a glass over them.

1 FIMO Block = 1 portion

Tip: Clean the work surface and your hands with a damp cloth before proceeding with a new FIMO colour in the next step.

Step Two:

Place the flat rolled mixture on baking paper and use a cutter to cut out a large and a small heart. Repeat steps one and two for the bright hearts. At the end, you should have cut out two small hearts and two large hearts: one in light pink and one in dark pink.

Step Three:

Now press the small hearts onto the large hearts in the other colour.

Step Four:

Next, use a toothpick to pierce a small hole in each of the hearts. Both heart pendants are now hardened in the oven for 30 minutes at 110°C. Get help from an adult!

Step Five:

As soon as the hearts have cooled down, the fun continues! Now bend open the split rings with pliers and thread them through the holes that were previously punched. Then close the rings again by bending them back to their original shape.

Now you just have to thread the necklaces through the split rings and the heart necklaces are finished!

 

Thanks to our friends at STAEDTLER for this project, originally published at: https://www.staedtler.com/au/en/discover/fimo-kids-heart-necklace-for-best-friends/