Candy Cane Santa

Materials needed:  Air-dry clay in white, flesh, red & green.  Blush for cheeks.  Optional black seed beads for eyes.

Create pieces as shown in diagram below.

Make This Cute Snowman

This step-by-step Snowman tutorial from Linda Peterson is a great classic. She wrote it as a polymer clay tutorial but the steps are almost identical when making with air-dry clay....except DON'T BAKE.

Here's a few tips for working with air-dry clay:

Happy New Year!

Wishing you a happy, healthy and creative new year!

(print out picture for kids to color!)

Make a Cute Reindeer

Today we have a video demo showing you how to create a cute little reindeer with polymer clay.  But Air-Dry-Clay.com is suppose to be about air-dry clay, right?   It is.   This demo is a good one to use as an example of how to modify a polymer clay tutorial when using air dry clay.   The types of air-dry clays that work best for

Create a Christmas Star with Cold Porcelain

Today we have another excellent video demo from Marisol Romero, showing us, step-by step, how to make a pudgy Christmas star using cold porcelain & a foam ball.  Other air-dry clays would also work well for this easy project, especially the softer pre-colored brands.

Thanksgiving Turkey Pin

Something fun to wear for Thanksgiving!  Tutorial from Tamara Dozier and Creative Paperclay showing us how to create turkey pin shown here.

Make these cute elves for Christmas or anytime

Make one elf or 100 elves as Christmas favors! This clay tutorial for creating these expressive elves has been translated to English based on step-by-step instructions written by Sandra Gomez and

Make a Cute Snowman

Marisol Romero shows us, step by step,  how to make this cute cold porcelain snowman in the following 2 videos.   Dialog is in Spanish, but even if you don't understand the language you should be able to follow along.  Marisol clearly and carefully shows each step.

How to Make a Cute Polar Bear

This video demo from Linda Peterson features a whimsical winter Polar Bear made with air-dry Cloud Clay. Cloud Clay is very soft and easy to use but dries to a hard, durable and matte finish in 24 hours or less.

Paperclay Christmas Ornaments

Martha Stewart shows us how to make beautiful and easy Christmas ornaments with Creative Paperclay modeling material.

Mrs Santa Claus demo

Cold porcelain video slideshow from Eliane Sol demonstrating each step in creating a Mrs Claus figure and box topper.  Many details are shown for shaping and painting the cute face.

Flowers: Poinsettia.

Make these festive Poinsettia flowers with air-dry clay in your choice of white, pink or red. Step by step instructions, with photos, are provided by SifBeth. Although this demonstration shows how to make flowers using gumpaste, the techniques are very similar for air-dry clay and cold porcelain flowers.   One difference is, if tutorial calls

Dimensional Santa Box Lid

How to use Creative Paperclay to add a sculpted Santa Claus to lid of oval box. Holiday tutorial from Michaels Stores.   Paperclay adheres best to unsealed wood or paper mâché.   Link to download pattern is at bottom of page.

Sorry, Michaels has removed or moved this tutorial.

Santa Claus Ornament

Small Christmas ornament made with Makin's Clay (air-dry); uses a mold to create Santa's body. Easy and suitable for beginners. Click here for Santa Ornament tutorial.

Angel Ornament

Small Christmas ornament made with Makin's Clay (air-dry); uses a mold to create Angel shape.  Easy and  suitable for beginners. Click here for Angel Ornament tutorial