How to Make Clay Star Eid Decorations

Pull a chunk of clay off of the block and warm up in your hands. Use a rolling pin to roll out the clay until it is around 1cm thick.

Download and cut out the star templates attached at the bottom of this page and use to mark around the clay- or go freehand! Then cut out the star shapes and set the leftover clay to one side.

You will need two stars for each decoration.

Press one of the dowels into one clay star about half way as pictured, then place the second star on top to make a clay star sandwich! Then use your fingers and a bit of water to smooth the two together- adults may need to help kids with this part as it can be a little fiddly.

Set aside somewhere safe to dry- this can take up to 3 days depending on the temperature and ventilation in the room.

Once completely dry you have an optional step to take some fine sandpaper to smooth down any rough edges and shape the clay further.

You may also want to pop some tacky glue into the hole that the dowel has made to secure the dowel.

Time to paint! We've painted a base coat of white paint to make the colours we put on top truly sing, this is optional.

Choose your favourite colours, metallics, glitters and decorate as desired. Then leave to dry. We've painted one using sparkle paint with stars in, and the other in shiny gold.

Once dry you can use letter stickers to spell out your name or a greeting. We've spelt out 'Happy Eid!' and 'Eid Mubarak!!!'.

You could also decorate further here using POSCA paint pens to add doodles such as polka dots or zig zags. You could also add stickers or pom poms.