Use air dry clay
(or oven bake!), rolled out into thin snakes to mimic a coiled rope basket look. After your basket is dry or cured, use acrylic paint to add details.
You can use the widest circle setting … Read More ...
Marbled Clay Eggs
These marbled Easter eggs from Ice Pandora make cute little bowl fillers. Add a handful to a decorative dish or vase or spring flower pot to decorate for Easter. Hole them and string on twine for little garlands.
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DIY Clay Leaf Dishes
If you’re looking for little clay projects to make as gifts these pretty leaf dishes from Garden Therapy are one to try. The tutorial uses air dry clay
– and mentions that they’re not the sturdiest things – but you … Read More ...
Making Leaf Bowls
These leaf bowls are great crafts – from earth clay fired in a kiln to oven bake to air dry
– for kids and, really, anyone who thinks leaf motifs are pretty awesome. A fired ceramic piece or a well … Read More ...
Tiny Polymer Clay Succulent Pots
These plant pots by Cintia of My Poppet are adorable and, as she remarks in her post, reminiscent of mid-century ceramics. The tutorial goes over how to loosely build these little planters but there’s lots of space for putting your … Read More ...
DIY Make Your Own Footprint Bowls
My daughter is a little old for this craft and I wish some well meaning person had used her baby feet to make one for me 18 years ago. Louise from Messy Little Monster has the details for a heart … Read More ...
Using Slumping Molds with Clays
This is one of those air dry clay tutorials that works just great with polymer clay
, as well. Simple use coloured clay and bake instead of allowing to air dry. You could even bake it right in the muffin … Read More ...
Little Bowls for Mother’s Day
This is a Mother’s Day project for the younger set – little ring dishes embellished to look like flowers or starry skies. These are made from Model Magic
, a really great air dry material from Crayola. It’s fun, easy … Read More ...
April Fools Clay Pranks
If the teaser picture didn’t make you run away then we can maybe agree that a realistic looking spider would be a good prank. A little white and translucent clay, mixed well and shaped into a splat shape, makes a … Read More ...
Clay Bunny Bowls
This cute project makes simple bunny bowls. Melissa of Alice and Lois uses air dry clay for this project and warns the end result is a little fragile. You could mitigate that by using polymer clay, baked for long … Read More ...
Magnetic Clay Bowls
Clayers are so clever! I’m always looking for ways to make cute but useful things out of clay and here’s a neat spin on the trinket bowl that would make it useful to catch your sewing pins in the sewing … Read More ...
DIY No Kiln Clay Bowls
Little molded bowls – slab bowls on either innie or outie molds – are one of those fun, easy projects in clay. These ones by Angie Ramirez are made from air dry children’s clay but you could certainly do these … Read More ...
Polymer Clay River Rocks and Beach Stones
Maria Jam Brown, the Blonde Crow, has a pdf tutorial with several faux stone techniques. There’s a recipe for a great smooth beach stone to complete your polymer clay summer accessories or decorations.
Make a variety of faux stones for … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Starfish
Beach and sea life are popular summer themes. These polymer clay starfish use fairly simple tools and a single colour of clay to make fun decorations or jewellery charms. The original tutorial is in Russian but you can see a … Read More ...
Polymer Clay Coil Bowl with Tiny Goldfish
Penni Jo, of Best Flexible Molds, has a cute bowl project.
Creating a coil bowl using scrap fabric is a great way to upcycle old materials and give them new life. In this project, we take it a step … Read More ...