Foam Clay Idea: DIY Autumn Flower Frame

This charming flower frame, crafted with soft air-dry clay, showcases vibrant sunflowers, pumpkins, and warm autumn colors. Let’s get started!

Before You Start

Materials & Where to Purchase

• Foam clay in various colours. I recommend buying this BOHS foam clay set
• Clay needle tool or toothpick
• Picture frame (8 in x 10 in)
• White glue or craft glue

Note: above are Amazon affiliate links.

Tips for Working with Soft Air-Dry Clay

For tips and tricks on handling foam clay, check out this helpful article.

Additionally, I also sell simple foam clay kits. They come with all the material you need to make a beautiful figurine. I think you'd love it 💕

Color Mixing

For the designs, I used autumn colors like yellow, orange, red, brown, muted green, and light yellow. You may need to mix basic colors to achieve your desired shades.

Here is how to mix some of the colors I used:

Instructions

1. Make leaves

Create about 20 petals in various fall colors and sizes. Form small balls of clay, flatten them into teardrop shapes, and use the toothpick to create vein details.

2. Create Flowers and Accessories

Basic Flower: Make 12 flowers. Create a round ball for the center and flatten teardrop shapes for petals. Use the toothpick for petal indents and attach them around the center.

Sunflower: Roll a brown ball for the center, flatten it, and use the toothpick to create a crisscross pattern. Add yellow petals around the center.

Pumpkin: Form a round orange ball, flatten it slightly, and create vertical ridges with the toothpick. Add a small green stem on top.

Get creative with different flowers, mushrooms, apples, and more!

3. Dry the Clay Pieces

Place all clay pieces on a non-stick. It will take 1-2 days for the clay to completely dry before you stick it on the flower frame.

You can also stick it on the picture frame directly without drying, but it’s not recommended because the flowers will stick together and it will be hard to arrange it to your liking. 

4. Assemble the Frame

When the flowers are dried, use white glue or any sort of glue to stick it on to the surface of the frame. I added the leaves first, arranging the colors from darkest at the bottom to lightest at the top.

Add the flowers next on top of the leaves, also from darkest at the bottom to lightest at the top, creating a gradient. 

5. Final Steps

Allow the frame and glue to dry completely. Your autumn flower frame is now ready to be displayed!

If you enjoyed this tutorial, I encourage you to checkout our foam clay kits that come with everything you need to make a beautiful figurine :)