Make a Miniature Succulent Plant

Miniature Succulent Plant Tutorial from Blue Kitty Minis.
These are scaled for dollhouse miniatures, but you could always make the plants a bit larger if you want to make an arrangement for your side table!

Materials needed:
Air-dry clay in color(s) of choice
Talcum powder or other preferred powder to prevent sticking
Artists pastels, petal dust or other powders (optional for coloring tips of leaves)

Tools needed:
Flower cutter (for this I used a small daisy, other flowers and sizes produce different plants)
Ball ended tool or blunt pointed tool.
Paintbrush with fairly short stiff bristles
Pasta machine or clay rolling pin to roll clay to even thickness

Clay Flowers: Mini Carnations

Make these miniature carnations following this tutorial by Ernesto Baldini of Punto Sur.  Cold porcelain is used in the tutorial but other air-dry clays will work well for this project, especially the soft clays.

Clay Flowers: Miniature Violets

Make these miniature violets following this tutorial by Ernesto Baldini of  Punto Sur.  Cold porcelain is used in the tutorial but other air-dry clays will work well, especially the soft clays.

Instead of miniature, you could try making these flowers life size using these same techniques.

Miniature Ice Cream and Cones

Very nice tutorial for making miniature ice cream scoops using air-dry clay.

These mini ice cream cones and sundaes are great for charms, earrings and other jewelry plus dollhouse miniatures.   You might have to make them a bit smaller than shown if you want 1:12 scale.

Make a Miniature Teddy Bear

This video demo from sugarcraft artist Aine shows us how to make a tiny miniature teddy bear. This demo is using gumpaste to create figure, but the process is exactly the same for air-dry clay. Just use regular glue where she calls for edible glue.

Make Some Mini Tennis Shoes

Learn how to make miniature tennis shoes in this video tutorial from "Moldando".   Artist is using cold porcelain (biscuit) but almost any air-dry clay would be suitable.  

Make a Miniature Stack of Pancakes

Make these realistic mini-pancakes for your dollhouse, roombox, diorama or even as a jewelry charm.

This video from Kawaii Supply shows us how to make a short stack of pancakes (with butter) in miniature using air-dry clay.  Cosmos Clay (from Japan) was used for demonstration, but almost any air-dry

Miniature People made with Darwi Clay

This French artist (Lauren) has created a whole village of miniature people from Darwi air-dry clay.   These are uncomplicated little dolls with painted features and clothes made of paper.  Creative Paperclay would work well for this project also.   If you need to translate this French website, you can go to