Modeling clay craft
A toothpick will also hold the head to the body of a clay monkey. Bond pipe cleaners for the legs and the tail. The ears are made of cardboard or felt.
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Modeling clay craft
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009How to make modeling clay
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
A toothpick will hold the head to the body of a clay elephant. The trunk is made out of an empty tooth-paste tube or a pipe cleaner. Add ears made of cardboard or felt, and tusks and tail made of pipe cleaners or paper. Set the elephant’s body on legs made of spools.
Modeling the figure in clay
Monday, October 26th, 2009
Modeling the figure in clay
For a long-necked giraffe, you will also need a clay head and a clay body. The neck can be a pencil. Pipe cleaners will do for the legs and tail. And pipe cleaner bits, paper, or toothpicks can be used for the horns.
Homemade modeling clay
Sunday, October 25th, 2009
A CLAY ZOO
You can stick all sorts of odds and ends in clay to make funny animals.
You can add animal parts made of pipe cleaners, yarn, toothpicks, empty tooth-paste tubes, empty lipstick tubes, empty spools, cardboard, felt, or almost anything.
You can make a clay lion with two balls of clay one for the body and one for the head. Make the neck out of a tooth-paste cap. Bits of pipe cleaner or yarn can be used for the tail and the lion’s mane. Toothpicks or spools make good legs.
Clay pottery bowl
Friday, October 9th, 2009
Painting the clay bowl
Now you are ready to paint the bowl.
Mix tempera with about a spoonful of liquid detergent. Clay is oily, and the detergent helps the paint to stick to the bowl. If the paint does not stick well, add more detergent.
When the paint is dry, cover the bowl with shellac to protect the paint.
Make a clay bowl
Thursday, October 8th, 2009
A CLAY BOWL
Materials
hardening clay
tempera paint
liquid detergent
shellac
an old sheet or a piece of cloth
Lay cloth on table or floor.
Put a large lump of clay on it. Squeeze and mash the clay to get rid of air holes and soft spots, and roll it into a ball.
Punch a hole in the center of the ball.
Use your fingers to make the hole larger and larger until the clay is shaped like a bowl.
Make clay people
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Make craft clay people
Squeeze and mash the elay before you roll it into halls and sausage-shaped pieces so that you get rid of any air holes and soft spots.
Stick the balls and sausage-shaped pieces together to make a body. Smooth the clay where the pieces join.
Use the pointed stick and bits of clay to shape the parts of the face and to mark the lines for clothes.
The clay person can be standing, sitting, lying down, or crawling. You may have to lean him against another piece of clay or a stick if he is standing.
How To Make clay people
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
How To Make clay people.
Materials
modeling clay
a pointed stick or a pencil
Clay people of different sizes are made of pieces of clay that are shaped into halls and rolls.
The bodies of grown-up people are longer and thinner than those of babies and small children, and the shoulders of grownups are wider. Grownups also have longer arms and legs.
The pictures on this page show how manv halls and sausage-shaped pieces of clay are needed for the different kinds of bodies.
The art and craft of clay
Monday, October 5th, 2009
Add extra clay to the face to build up the chin and the cheeks. Make hair marks with a pointed stick. Add pieces and lumps of clay to make more hair for the heads of girls.
Craft and art of clay
Sunday, October 4th, 2009
Two ears can be shaped out of other pieces of clay. Place them on the sides of the head just helow the line. Smooth the clay alter you stick on the ears and the nose.
Roll out a worm-shaped piece of clay, and cut pieces off for the eyebrows and the lips.