CRAFT OUT !!!

Craft supplies

For flowers: air dry clay (we used red, orange and purple for petals and green for receptacle (green cup around bottom of the flower crown)

Green chenille stems

For vase: yogurt cup

Acrylic paint, brush

Ribbon

Stickers

Marbles or pebbles or anything heavy to put inside the cup (to make the vase stable)

Directions

First, mold the roses. Make “sausage”, flatten, roll. Make six petals - take small clay balls, flatten, pinch on one side, connect around the crown

To make a receptacle (cup), make a ball, flatten it into a pancake

Pierce chenille stem in the middle of “pancake”, put on the rose, adjust a cup

Put the roses in the glass or cup to dry, meanwhile prepare a vase:

Paint yogurt cup, let it dry

Decorate it with stickers, gems, sequins, or draw anything you want with permanent markers

Tie a ribbon around

Fill the cup with something heavy - marbles, pebbles or coins

Put the roses into a new vase

Present to somebody who’ll definitely love it!

Craft supplies

Air dry clay

Gemstones

Photo you want to frame and display

Scissors

Self-adhesive flexi magnet scraps

Directions

Make two long “sausages” with clay

Twist together, connect ends

Decorate with gemstones

Cut your picture to fit into frame

Press the frame over the picture

Stick magnet scraps in two or three spots from the wrong side

You may want to wait till clay is dry and then display it on the fridge or any metallic surface

Craft supplies

Air dry clay - orange and green

Couple wiggle eyes (oval)

Shaped gemstones

Plastic knife

Directions

With orange clay: roll the ball, put it on the table surface and push a little bit (bottom part must be flat)

With green clay: Roll 1 big “sausage” for head, 4 medium “sausages” for legs, 1 long skinny “sausage” for shell frame and 1 tiny-tiny one for tail

Stick all the parts together, pull the head up so your turtle looks lively

Push eyes into place, push diamonds into the shell

Make “toes” and mouth by gently pressing plastic knife into clay

Invent a name for your turtle!

Few minutes craft for magnets lovers!

Craft supplies

Yellow air-dry clay

Teapot cutout from craft store

Mini gems

Round magnet

Sealer (optional)

Directions

Form a ball with clay

Press to make fat “pancake”

Press the teapot into the center

Decorate with mini gems around

Press magnet from the wrong side

Let the clay dry, spray with sealer

Cute things don’t have to be handy!

Craft supplies

Air dry clay - we used orange and green

Pair of wiggle eyes

Feathers - small for the “crown” and big for wings and tail

Optional: pearl or acrylic beads for necklace

Directions

Form two “sausages” of clay, put together, twist (do not mix it too long to keep beautiful patterns)

Form an egg, then pull one side, curve (neck), mold the head, pinch back the beak

Press in eyes

Stick the feathers in to head, to the sides, to the tail zone

Optional: press the beads into her neck to make her necklaced

Let the clay dry and it’s ready to display or gift!

Craft supplies

Unfinished wooden box with tip-up lid from craft store (make sure two raws of tea bags settle)

Acrylic paint, brush

Varnish (optional, but since this box will be living in the kitchen… we better protect it from liquids, oils and dust )

Air dry clay matching with paint (or just color it with the same paint)

Embellishments (we used wooden cutouts and miniature rhinestones)

Directions

Paint the box with the paint you chose, let it dry

Varnish, let it dry (attention: better do it outside or in well-ventilated facility)

Affix the clay to inner surface of the lid (we suppose the lid will be always opened)

Press the embellishments in the clay

Let the clay dry

Fill with tea bags! Enjoy your finished project or give it to your mom or granny or anyone you love so they enjoy it and boast of it!

Butterfly, flower, heart, pear, whale - and anything else you wish. Just mold it with air dry clay, add elements, stick on the paper plate and it’s ready to display or gift (just allow to dry

Craft supplies (for each)

Yellow paper plate

Air dry clay (different colors, see pictures)

Googly eyes (2 for each, 1 for whale)

Chenilles (pipe cleaners): butterfly - gold, flower and pear - green, heart - pink or red, whale - blue or purple

Gemstones and glitter glue to decorate

Pipe cleaner loop on the back side to hang on the wall - attach with hot glue

Have you created your own personage? Let us know!

Craft supplies

Flexible push mold – family (we had 2 adults and 2 children)

Oven bake clay – beige, about 3 oz, depends on the mold (or different colors, if you prefer not to paint)

Black seed beads – 8 for eyes

Acrylic paint (not needed if you used multicolored clay) – colors that you want to paint them with (what color your clothes are?)

1 picture 4×6’ of an ocean shore or any other beautiful landscape you would like to be on

4×6’ picture frame

Glue gun and glue stick

Directions

Press clay completely into mold. If you use a variety of colors, add colors you want into the section of the mold you want colored, starting from the bottom upward toward the edge

Remove from the mold

Add some details such as eyes (seed beads), noses and smiles (scratch with toothpick), earrings for mom or any else

Tips: the mold we used didn’t have mom’s legs… If you have the same one you can just roll ‘sausages’ yourself

Bake as instructed

While it’s being baked, insert picture in the frame

When figures are ready, let them cool out

Paint as desired (if you used a variety of colors clay, just skip this step) and let it dry

Hotglue figures over the glass

Now display and enjoy! You can change background pictures as often as you want, so your clay family travels!

Craft supplies

Blue air-dry or baking clay

2 flat shell pieces that can form a sailing boat

Chunky glitter glue – moons and stars (it’s not necessary, use what you have or what you consider will fit!)

Round magnet

Permanent marker

Directions

Mold a sphere, then squeeze it between palms to get ‘cookie’ form

Press in shell pieces transversely to each other – make them form a boat

Press in magnet to the wrong side of ‘cookie’

Let the clay dry or bake it in the oven

Cover blue zone with chunky glitter glue

You can also paint the boat with transparent glitter glue to make it shiny

On the wrong side of your magnet write a name of the place of your vacation (where you actually picked those shells?), and a date

Now put your magnet on the fridge and let your heart be warm every time you see it!

Important: do not put glitter glue on before sending your project to the stove! Only after it’s baked and chilled.