Acorn Jewlery
One of the most beautiful finds in nature, to me, is the acorn. Acorns are so whimsical with those cute little caps and the crafting possibilities are endless with them! Don’t they make the most perfect little pocket to hold more of nature’s little treasures?
To make a pendant you need: acorn caps (the really big Burr Oak acorn caps work great because they are so big, but any acorn cap will do), Tacky glue (school glue shrinks too much as it dries), dried and/or pressed plants and flowers, hemp cording, hand drill and eye screws (optional). To make them, fill the cap with glue and place your chosen treasure in the glue before it dries. Set it aside upright to dry for a few days.
The glue tends to shrink as it dries and pulls the pressed flowers inside the cap a little. You could always put a little pebble into the cap before filling it with glue, then add the glue and gently place the pressed flower on top. The pendants that worked the best for us are the ones with the flower heads stuffed into the glue. Calendula, bergamot, and red clover blossoms are our favorite pendants. Stuffing the cap with lavender, feverfew and chamomile worked nicely too. We made our herb pendants scented by adding a couple drops of lavender essential oil to the flowers after the glue dried.
After the glue dries attach the pendant to the cording. Here, I drilled holes using a hand drill and screwed in eye screws found at any hardware store.
Another way to attach the cording is to leave the stem on and tie the cording around it. Dab a little glue onto the knot to enforce the hold.
Araina’s favorite acorn pendant has a red clover inside! Enjoy!
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Precious! Thank you so much! love, Beth
This is so adorable… we’re going acorn and flower hunting:)) Thank you!
@beth
use some of those acorns to make christmas garlands. they are sooo pretty and you can hang them anywhere.
i can’t wait to go collect more burr acorns now!
I am currently cursing the big tree in out yard littering the porch and sidewalks with tons of acorns. Maybe I could find a use for some of them! thanks
Such a cute idea, I must try this with T.
Thank you!
What a charming idea! Oh how I wish we had acorns up here in Alberta Canada. Have to take a look and see if there is anything else we could use.
These are absolutely charming!
Spirithelpers
Way cool!! I’m lovin those!!
~Andy @ poppiesatplay.blogspot.com
Oh! How Lovely and Beautiful!!
God Bless You and Yours!!!
Those are beautiful! What a clever, lovely idea. I see several of these being made as Christmas gifts around here…
Thank you for the wonderful instructions!
~Michelle
Hello,
These are awesome!
~ Gabriela ~
Those are crazy beautiful! I think I’d have to import acorns from somewhere. I’m not sure I’ve ever actually seen one!
Oh, I just love acorns! Today I was wearing the felted acorn pendant you sent me some time ago. I will certainly be on the lookout for some to make party favors for DS’s Totoro-themed birthday party (Totoro is a huge acorn fan as well ;0). Thanks for the inspiration and tutorial!!
I love this!!! So pretty. I’ll spare a few of my precious acorn caps for K to make some jewelry.
Blessings and magic.
I really like how you have both blogs! Your acorn pendants are so sweet! I just love acorns, there is something about them that has always held a fascination for me : ) Im going to have to share this with my daughter I thing she would really love making some! Thanks for the wonderful post!
What a wicked cool project – thanks for sharing!!!
Ahh we just collected acorns today!
What a sweet idea Lisa, thanks for sharing : )
Oooh, I think these are darling but alas, no acorns here. We may have to get grandma to send some from Alabama.
Oh, I can’t wait to make these! How beautiful!
Goose and I love these! What a great idea! Can’t wait to try it! But it isn’t easy for us to find acorns. We’ll have to call on the acorn fairy for some help!
Have a good one, ladies!!!
Lisa and Goose
These are just beautiful – you can’t get better than nature itself can you? I agree, acorns have endless possibilities but you’ve hit on an especially gorgeous one here x
we might be able o try this with gum nuts-
no acorns anywhere over here, but yours look lovely.
i just have to make these.
i love these!! What a fabulous idea! Thank you for sharing! i can’t wait to try these with my kiddoes. We have acorn caps and flowers everywhere.
These pendants are so cute!
what a really great project! We find lots of acorns so we will have to try this sometime very soon..Before the squirrels get them all
It’s so lovely! So I’m going to search for acorns this week…
I used jewelweed today! Some cousins and I were in a park with woods nearby. One of my cousins said he had an itchy arm and thought he got poison ivy. I found some jewelweed and applied it to his arm. He left right afterward so I don’t know if it worked or not. (I forgot to split the stem and kind of just had him rub the flowers on the itchy spot!) Either way, we had fun learning about plants!
well how amazingly crafty is that ?
too cute !
I am so happy I found your blog. This is such a wonderful thing. When I was a child I used to fill acorn caps with whatever I was drinking (pop, juice etc.) and leave it for the faeries. Oh happy days.
So THAT’S what you were teasing us with!! I couldn’t figure out what you were going to do with the acorns – but I knew it would be something magical. Very nicely done.
Those are so adorable! As the acorns start dropping, we’ll have to keep this project in mind. Thanks!
Those are so cute. We have only smaller gamble oak growing here, but we do have a collection of bigger acorn caps as well. Maybe we will try it with calendula. I think they even make pretty little decorations not strung as necklaces. Thanks for sharing!
Very sweet. We’ve been searching for acorns but the ones in our neighborhood aren’t quite ready to drop.
We don’t have acorns growing here, dangit. Pecans either. I miss both of those.