Glow in the Dark Necklace "Ghost Toasty"

Kris Richards

This ghostly glow-in-the-dark necklace is sure to add some spooky fun to your Halloween.

Getting Started

Preheat oven to 275 °F. Test temperature with oven thermometer for perfectly cured clay. Condition all clay by kneading until it’s soft and smooth or running it through the Clay Conditioning Machine for several passes on the widest setting. Fold the clay in half after each pass and insert the fold side into the rollers first.

Step 1

Condition and roll Traditional Glow (yellow), Glow Green, Glow Blue, and Black clay out flat. Use your round cutters, and cut colors and sizes of clay as shown. You will make 14 beads out of the Glow Blue clay (8 round and 6 "donut" shaped beads), and 6 Glow Green donut shaped beads. Set the extra Glow Blue and Glow Green clay aside after shaping these beads.

Step 2

Roll the Glow Blue and Glow Green beads into balls. Flatten the Glow Blue ones between your thumb and the table to make them look like little donuts. Use the wood skewer to press a hole in each one.

Step 3

Get your wood skewer, and roll out a thin sheet of Black clay. Begin at one long end of the clay, and wrap it around the wood skewer as shown. Smooth out any lines left in the clay so the beads will be smooth and round. Cut these into beads with the Super Slicer. Cut 8 beads the same size. These are called "tube" beads." Leave the cut beads on the wood skewer to bake.

Step 4

Make the long Glow Green striped tube beads the same way you made the Black tube beads, by wrapping the Glow Green clay around another wood skewer. (Don't cut the beads yet, though!)

Step 5

To make the beads striped, cut a long thin strip of Glow Blue clay, and wrap it around the entire Glow Green tube.

Step 6

Cut the Glow Green striped tube into 6 equal parts. These will be longer and thicker than the little Black tube beads. Leave the cut beads on the wood skewer to bake.

Step 7

Roll out a sheet of the Traditional Glow (yellow) clay. Use the largest round cutter to cut the body of the ghost, and the smallest round cutter to cut two pieces for his arms.

Step 8

Shape the body into a ball, and then roll one end of the ball into a point. Press the point into a squiggly shape. Shape the rounds into two round balls, and then taper into points at one end.

Step 9

Press the two pointy ends to the ghost's body and bend them into place touching the arms to the body as shown.

Step 10

Roll two tiny Glow Blue balls for ghost's eyes and press them firmly to the front of his head. (The round part of his body, near the top.) Make two smaller black balls, flatten them, and press them onto the Glow Blue eyeballs. Repeat with two very teeny White dots to make a sparkle in each eye if desired. Use another wood skewer to press a hole for his mouth. Draw it down into an "O" shape. Pierce the wood skewer through the side of his head, so you can string him onto the necklace.

Step 11

Roll a tiny Glow Green snake just long enough to fit above the ghost's eyes. Press it on, and use another wood skewer to press a line in between the eyes. This makes eyelids for the ghost. Make two more ghosts and pose their arms slightly different. Make the other two with Glow Green eyes and Glow Blue eyelids, if you wish!

Step 12

Bake all pieces and beads in a clean baking dish lined with clean paper or index cards. Don't worry, the paper won't burn because you will be baking at 275 °F for 30 minutes. Use an external over thermometer to be sure the oven is actually at the proper baking temperature. Adjust oven dial accordingly to reach an accurate 275 °F. Remove everything from the oven and allow it all to cool.

Stringing the Necklace

o Starting with a ghost in the very center, put a striped bead on each side.
o Then, one ghost on each side
o Then Glow Blue flat beads
o Then black flat beads
o Then Glow Green flat beads.
o End the necklace with four round Glow Blue beads on each side. See necklace picture for reference.
o Tie a knot in the end!