This was great. We brought out our trusty Sculpey and some old wire I had laying around. I cut the wire into strange sizes. I pulled apart the Sculpey into smaller pieces for Lou to work with. She went to town. Grammy called them “molecular.” I curved the sharp ends into spirals or circles for [...]

We decided to make some ornaments out of Sculpey. Then I thought, Hanukkah is coming up early this year so why not make a Mezuzah case. A Mezuzah is a religious scroll that is put in a Mezuzah case and hung on the door frame. So we rolled out some Sculpey. Then we squashed the [...]

Most people don’t have a kiln in their house. This makes ceramics at home hard, but not impossible. We looked in our area for a ceramics shop that does those pre-fired “paint your own” classes. We were lucky enough to find one that does actual ceramics too. Our shop lets us rent a shelf and [...]

Aunt Nora and Alice were in for a visit this weekend from California, so I ordered some polymer clay for an activity.

I bought one stick of this wax from our local Waldorf school to give it a try. First we held it in our hands to warm it up…

Finally, those dang dot glue things are done.

Super Sculpey is awesome. I learned to use it on a claymation thing I worked on a long time ago and continue to use it today for fine art.

My toddler likes to put a buncha toys together into some kinda abstract building or sculpture.