Sitting Santa

Make this charming Santa to decorate for the holidays.  Quick and easy craft suitable for beginners.

Materials needed:  Air-dry clay in white, flesh, red & brown or black for boots.   Optional black seed beads for eyes.

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:

Make this cute owl

Make this cute owl from your favorite air dry clay.  Easy to make...great for beginners (kid-friendly)....just follow these step-by-step photos (from the "Cake Duchess").  If you have any trouble with the clay notsticking to itself,

Snoopy

Everyone's favorite cartoon dog Snoopy!  Easy to make...great for beginners (kid-friendly)....just follow these step-by-step photos (from an Asian website).  If you

Cute Critter Week ~ Bluebird Tutorial

Cute Critter Tutorial ~ Lion

Cute Critter Week ~ Meercat Tutorial

Cute Critter Week ~ Bulldog Tutorial

Cute Critter Week: Snoopy tutorial

Make a Red Angry Bird Magnet

Learn how to make an angry bird magnet. You'll need some red, white, yellow, orange and black clay along with a magnet.  An easy, beginners project, just follow the steps shown in this video demo.

Pink Flamingo Marionette

Make this pretty Flamingo for the kids or with the kids.  This working marionette puppet project from  AMACO is suitable for grades 6-8.  This tutorial uses AMACO Claycrete, which is an instant papier mâché.   If you

Create Pink Pig Using Cloud Clay & Water Bottle

This cute pig shown above is the subject of Linda Peterson’s easy-to-make tutorial: How to Make a Farm Pig From Cloud Clay!  With some air-dry Cloud Clay, a plastic water bottle armature, and a little acrylic paint you can make this cutie pie pig!

Flop-Eared Bunny

Use air-dry clay to make this Flop-Eared Bunny.  This is a beginners tutorial and is suitable for many types of air-dry clays.   The softer clays are suggested, such as Makin's Clay, Hearty Clay, Model Magic, Cloud Clay and homemade cold porcelain.  This tutorial is kid-friendly and, with a little help, very young hands could make this bunny!

Easy Christmas Project for Kids

Something to make with the kids.   Snowmen and Christmas trees made with inexpensive Crayola Air Dry Clay (a school grade clay) and embellishments found around house. 

Another easy owl!

About 6 months ago we featured a super simple semi-abstract owl. Today we have another easy owl from same author.  This owl would make a great pendant, focal bead or charm.   Tutorial suggests using Model Magic clay but many other brands of clay would work as well, including Cloud Clay & Creative Paperclay. Plain white is shown for this owl but Model Magic comes in many colors giving you the option of making a whimsical or natural appearance to your owl.

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.

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.

Cute Monster Keychains, Magnets or Brooches

Create these cute and comicial monster charms with a little Creative Paperclay and a lot of imagination.  Gather your found pieces of hardware and watch parts to give your monster that steampunk look!

Bookmice make a nice gift!

This cute (and useful) bookmark is a great little craft to make with the kids or a quick and easy gift for all your friends!

You'll never lose your place with these easy-to-make bookmarks!