DIY Cat Trinket Dish
Spoil your feline loving friend with a purrfectly adorable DIY Cat Trinket Dish for all their pretty little things.
Servings: 1
Cost: $20
Equipment
- Rolling pin
- Cat cookie cutter
- Foam brush
Ingredients
- Air dry clay any color of choice
- Craft paint optional in color of your choice
- Gold leaf pen optional for decorating
Instructions
- Take a fistful of the air dry clay and knead it with your hands for a couple of minutes until it becomes soft and pliable. This helps to warm up the clay and make it easier to work with.
- On a smooth surface or plastic mat, roll out the clay with your rolling pin until it’s about 1/2 inch thick. It should be big enough for your cat cookie cutter to have a small border around the edge of the metal. The thicker the clay, the sturdier your trinket dish will be.
- Grab your cat cookie cutter and press it firmly down onto the rolled-out clay. Wiggle the cutter slightly to create a clean cut, then carefully remove the excess clay.
- Place your cat-shaped clay with the cutter still in place on a flat, non-stick surface (like a baking sheet lined with parchment paper) to dry.
- After it’s sat for a while, gently push the cat-shaped clay out of the cutter. We like have the clay harden a bit in the cutter to keep the nice, clean edges that are usually hard to get with handmade clay items.
- Allow the clay to fully dry. Depending on the thickness of your clay, drying can take 24-72 hours. Due to the thickness, ours took about 72 hours to fully dry. You will know when air clay dry is dry when it turns an off-white.
- Optional: Use a foam brush to apply a coat of white craft paint. Let the paint dry completely before adding any further details. We then added gold dots with a gold leaf pen.