Arabic Birthday Pendant {Tutorial}
Name pendants are huge in the Arab world because Arabic is such a beautiful script to write. This polymer clay pendant tutorial for kids plays on the popularity of these name pendants to celebrate a birthday.
People enjoy having their name or the name of a loved one on a necklace, worn close to their heart. I thought it would be fun to build on the popularity of the name pendants to create one that spelled the word eid, which is the Arabic word for festive or holiday.
Eid, when combined with the Arabic word for birth, milad, means birthday: Eid Milad. This birthday pendant, in bright yellow and pink colors, will adorn a birthday gift to a friend this weekend (don’t tell her it’s a book!). After she opens the gift, she can hang the eid pendant on her fridge, in her room or reuse it on someone else as a gift tag.
It was so easy to make that my teen took only an afternoon to put it together. But I would suggest making it a day in advance to ensure the glaze is fully dry.
Supplies
Sculpey Clay
Glaze
Paintbrush
Xacto
Fuzzy yarn
Use the Xacto to cut the clay into two equal parts and spend a little time kneading it. Once each piece is soft, roll them into ropes that are equal sizes.
Now you will need to twist the two pieces around each other.
Roll these two pieces to each other so that they smooth out into one rope.
Write out the word eid onto your cooking surface directly so that you don’t have to move it. Add a little curve to the ends so that you can hook your word onto your yarn.
Once your piece is done baking and has cooled, add a layer of glaze to give it a little shine & protect the surface from dust.
Now your eid pendant is ready to tie with yarn to your gift. Once we cut off the extra fuzzy yarn, we noticed a little heart had formed.
We added a dab of glue to the wrapping paper & added the heard for the dot of the i.
To turn it into a pendant, tie the yarn around the inside of the letters e and d and hang it anywhere you’d like.
Please stop by these other interesting way to wrap a gift:
Arabic Initial Wrapping Paper {Tutorial}
Happy Eid Pop-Up Wrap {Tutorial}
Visit ACraftyArab on Pinterest to see more tutorials that teach about the Arab world.
