Clay Crafts

If you have never created anything with clay before you are in for a big surprise at how easy and fun the hobby can be. All you have to do is use your imagination and be creative with your clay project to create some interesting and useful crafts.

Inventive crafters can even make their own clay for their unique projects. Here is a recipe for making modeling clay: Use 3/4 cup of water, 1 tablespoon vegetable oil, 1 1/4 cup flour, 1 1/4 cup salt, poster paint, and varnish. All you need to do is add the flour, water, vegetable oil, and salt. Then mix all the ingredients until you have a soft ball of dough. If your dough is too dry, simply add some water to moisten it. After you have created your clay base and modeled it into the desired shape, all you have to do is put it into the oven and bake it for at least 20 minutes at 350 degrees. After you have baked and cooled your clay project you can apply paint and varnish it.

Now that you have a great recipe for making modeling clay, the only thing left to do deciding what to make. This is where your imagination can take over completely and clay crafting can become so much fun. There are so many different things you can make with modeling clay, such as plaques for special events, figurines, ornaments for any occasion, beads for jewelry, and anything else you can imagine.

The inspiration of creating crafts with modeling clay will help you come up with so many other ideas. Also clay crafting is a great craft project for the entire family.