Materials needed: Air-dry clay in white, flesh, red & brown or black for boots. Optional black seed beads for eyes.
Air Dry Clay Tutorials
Tips and Tutorials for sculpting and modeling with air-dry, no-bake, self hardening clays and modeling compounds
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Sitting Santa
Materials needed: Air-dry clay in white, flesh, red & brown or black for boots. Optional black seed beads for eyes.
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
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.
Very Easy Jointed Doll Tutorial
This is a short photo tutorial from a Russian website for a string-jointed doll (wire is actually used). No translation is needed as there is no text. Writer doesn't say what kind of clay is used but this looks to me like a perfect project for Creative Paperclay. Because the doll is simplified and stylized, just about any sort of clay with any level of detail would be suitable. Some of the completed dolls shown have a sculpted face and some are just round balls with painted features. The choice is yours! Great beginners project....enjoy!
Garden bunny shelf sitters
Made with air-dry cold porcelain, using rope for legs and pushmold for tiny flowers. Embellished with mini garden tools and wire. Good beginner project! See the Rabbit Gardeners tutorial at Creaclic.
Did you know that you can use sugarcraft techniques with cold porcelain?
Did you know you can make your own cold porcelain at home?
See some cold porcelain recipes at this blog: Cold Porcelain Tutorials
Candy Cane Mouse
A Christmas ornament tutorial from the makers of Hearty Clay. Supplies needed:
White & Black Hearty Clay (to make gray mouse)
Red Hearty Clay
Hearty (Activa) Color Scale tool (optional)
3" of red 1/8" ribbon
Low Temp Glue Gun (or white glue)
For a pin (optional): 1 pin back
Ornament (optional): 1 eye pin for hanging and/or 4" of thin cord
Pottery Clay Angels
The Mexican Pottery Clay is a self-hardening red clay. But, if you want to experiment, I think these angels would look sweet created with a white air-dry clay instead of terra cotta.
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
Animal Print Safari Earrings
Animal prints are always on trend and fashion forward. Take a virtual safari with Linda Peterson as she shows you how to make these lightweight fun earrings with Cloud Clay® air dry clay. Linda creates the giraffe pattern with alcohol markers.
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