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. 

Sculping a Head with ADC

Bebi shows us her technique for sculpting a OOAK doll using air-dry clay (LaDoll Premier).   First she shapes a Styrofoam ball to use as head armature, adds eyes, covers everything with a layer of clay and then adds more clay to detail facial features.

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.

How to Wrap an Armature for Posable Doll

     

Many different types of armatures can be used to form the "skeleton" for an air-dry clay figure.  Some armature styles are used with flexible and poseable dolls and other styles with non-poseable figures.  Probably the most common material used is wire.  You can purchase

Bows, Bows, Bows

A few different ways to make some great little clay bows!  These are all demonstrated with polymer clay but technique would be exactly the same for air-dry clay... just no baking (or cat hair getting into your clay...LOL).

Angry Bird Tutorial: Yellow Bird

Here's a tutorial showing us how to make one of the Angry Birds out of clay.   In this video, Cecilia shows us how to make the Yellow Bird out of polymer clay.   This is one of the best demonstrations I've seen for making the Angry Birds and, so, even though she's using polymer clay, that's why I'm featuring it here.   I'm going to make mine out of air-dry clay and you can too.

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