This project uses air dry clay – and she comments not to use oven bake – like Fimo Air. You absolutely COULD use oven bake clay to make this ornament if you were using a glass ornament or an oven safe plastic one. I’ve done hundreds of clay covered ornaments and quite a few have been sculpted, covered critter ones although no octopus yet.
For a slightly lighter weight polymer clay version you could use Soufflé or pluffy or any of the other lower density clays.
Thanks for your insights on baking a clay covered ornament. I just assumed that since I was covering the hole at the top it would crack. I added an update to the tutorial with your notes. Cheers!
Hi Kat!
If the clay is thin it could crack due to the warm air expanding and the glass shifting and when I do thinly covered ornaments I tend to leave a pinhole but the bird, for example, covers the whole ball though the divot at the hanging loop is there on this one. I filled the later ones in more smoothly.
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