Santa's Jacket Ornament

Here's something different for a holiday ornament... Santa's jacket hanging on a hook.  For added cuteness there's a puppy in his pocket!

Tutorial calls for a bunny cookie cutter to make the puppy but, if you don't have

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:

Cookie Cutter Ornaments

I came across this blog (Russian I think) that has some interesting ideas for creating ornaments using cutouts embossed with things found around the house. First use cookie cutters to cut out the shape and then, using other tools you might have, emboss textures, cut out designs and poke holes in the dough before it dries. If you don't have a cutter with a 'ruffled' edge as seen in the above photo, you could create effect by repeatedly taking a bite with a small Kemper-type cutter around edge of shape.

You'll have to use Google Translate or some other service if you want to read the text, but there's lots of photos to give you ideas. The artist is using salt dough but just about any air-dry clay would work as well, maybe better.  See blog here.

Christmas Dala Horse tutorial

Add a little Swedish flair to your Christmas decor with these cute Dala Horses that can be gift tags, ornaments, decorative accents, scrapbooking and more!  Made with Hearty Clay or other similar air dry clay.  Free tutorial from Borei Design.

Cute Santa and Reindeer

Visit this Korean website for a step by step photo tutorial to create the Santa and reindeer shown above.  The photos are self-explanatory so there's probably no need to translate text.  Text shown under each photo is part of the image, so computerized translation won't work!

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

Personalization Made Simple

A short video from Glenn and Debi of Deb & Co shows how to personalize your clay Christmas ornaments with simple, easy to learn techniques that give your ornaments a professional look.   Tips on how to fit lettering in a small space plus how to correct errors.

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. 

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).

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

Paperclay Apple Ornaments

Amanda Marks ("Who Are You Calling Crafty") shows us how she made 130 apple ornaments using Creative Paperclay.   I think these are quite attractive and would be a perfect little item for those "extra" holiday gifts!  The

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.

How to Make a Folk Art Snowman

This is a 5-part video demo from MLB Studios showing us how to make this folk art snowman with stick legs that can either stand or hang from tree.    Creative Paperclay   is used but many other air-dry clays would work as well.

Using an instant papier mache (such as Celluclay) could give it an even more vintage look and feel!

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.