Szalay Family

Hello All,

I am planning a messy day with the children and we would like to do something with clay. I have some recipes for home made clay but it never really worked for us, so I want to visit Michael's and get something from their.

Can any of you suggest a brand or a type of clay for small and medium size projects, figurines, sculptures etc.

Thank you
Timea
Mom to Daniel 02-20-91, Christian 02-20-91, Thomas 12-25-97, Michael 07-04-02
in Innisfil (Churchill), Ontario

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Danielle Conger

Sculpey! It is very cool stuff. You can bake it in the oven once you've made your creation and then paint it. It comes in white or colors. You can make jewelry with it to, which is lots of fun. I'd highly recommend it!

--danielle
Can any of you suggest a brand or a type of clay for small and medium size projects, figurines, sculptures etc.

Thank you
Timea
Mom to Daniel 02-20-91, Christian 02-20-91, Thomas 12-25-97, Michael 07-04-02
in Innisfil (Churchill), Ontario


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Marti

At 01:37 PM 02/24/2004, you wrote:
>Can any of you suggest a brand or a type of clay for small and medium size
>projects, figurines, sculptures etc.

You can't beat Sculpey for colors, baking and making it hard, etc. My girls
love Sculpey!

They also sell a larger box of plain ol' clay... you might have to ask,
because it's very non-descript. However, it's an air dry clay, so there's
no oven baking involved. It comes in white/grey and a terra cotta color. I
think it was something like $12 for a larger-than-a-shoebox box of it.

They used it to make jars and bowls and such... things bigger than Sculpey,
for much less money.

Marti
Smithsburg MD

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In a message dated 2/25/04 12:17:58 PM Eastern Standard Time,
szalays@... writes:

> Can any of you suggest a brand or a type of clay for small and medium size
> projects, figurines, sculptures etc.
>
>

The sculpey clay is one you bake. It stays soft and moldable with a huge
variety of wonderful colors, then you put it in a glass oven proof dish and back
for 15 min for each 1/4 inch thickness. I ball park it. At 275 degrees. It
doesn't have to be exact in the timing.

There is also something put out by crayola usually with all the other crayola
stuff. It is like a really light clay, light as in light weight. You mold
it and it air dries into something in the range of Styrofoam for weight, they
have some colors but you can paint it when you are done and just use the white.

Also I saw yesterday they had a clay that is more like potters clay, they had
white, and several different brown colors. That also has to air dry.

Those are the ones that don't need any special equipment or a kiln.

We love clay and have lots of fun and have used both the sculpey stuff that
you bake in the oven and the crayola stuff. The boys like the sculpey stuff
more. I think it is because they have so many different colors.

Pam G


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Robyn Coburn

At craft stores there is also a clay that hardens when it is put into water
� a physics concept (or is it chemistry?) that confuses the heck out of me.
It is white, soft to manipulate and can be painted after it is hardened and
then dried off. I have used it to make miniature accessories for set models.

Robyn L. Coburn






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