Have you ever used air drying clay? My girls love it – it’s maleable, not too sticky, and you can poke embellishments into the clay to create wonderful effects. And as the name suggests, when you’ve made your model you can simply leave it to dry instead of having to bake it. You can paint the dried model, or leave the clay in its natural state. As it’s long-lasting its a good material to use for gifts and decorations too.
So, what did we make today? Well, I don’t you know if you’ve seen The Gallery over at Sticky Fingers, where Tara posts a prompt each week to inspire readers to take photographs of a particular topic, but this week the theme is ‘Creatures‘. So that’s what we made. Do you like them?
Why don’t you try some air drying clay with your children and see what they can make?
And if you’d like to see how everyone else interpreted the theme ‘Creatures’ why not pop over to Sticky Fingers and see?
We’ve used clay before, but it is really messy!! We discovered Crayola ‘Model Magic’ recently, which you can get in small packs for about 40p, which is enough for one child. You can mould it etc, it dries in 24hrs, makes no mess and you can colour it with markers or paint, or colouring pencils dipped in water. I like your creatures though!!
Hi Amanda, Thanks for the tip about the model magic. It’s handy to be able to get the clay in small packs so you can try it out. We used the DAS air dry clay today and it really wasn’t messy – about the same as play dough.
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We’ve used clay before, but it is really messy!! We discovered Crayola ‘Model Magic’ recently, which you can get in small packs for about 40p, which is enough for one child. You can mould it etc, it dries in 24hrs, makes no mess and you can colour it with markers or paint, or colouring pencils dipped in water. I like your creatures though!!
Hi Amanda, Thanks for the tip about the model magic. It’s handy to be able to get the clay in small packs so you can try it out. We used the DAS air dry clay today and it really wasn’t messy – about the same as play dough.
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brilliant entry to the gallery
must try the clay!
They look great!
Gorgeous! Such an unusuals take on the prompt!
They are fantastic!