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Free Play Art :: Cornstarch Clay

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We love our homemade play dough, but I thought the girls might enjoy working with a smoother dough. I made a batch of cornstarch clay and set it out with a variety of texture-making materials from around the house. This week: Cornstarch Clay Recipe for Cornstarch Clay: This is a recipe I had scribbled in [...]

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Air-Dry Clay Hearts

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Here’s a fun Valentine activity from the archives – the girls are planning to make these again this year! {Originally posted February, 2010} Today we had fun squishing, rolling, and cutting hearts made from air-dry clay. We punched holes with straws, so we can give Valentine necklaces to some special friends – and we’ll keep [...]

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Rubbing Plates + Clay

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My sister teaches a variety of pottery classes for preschool and school-age kids. One of her classes made these neat tiles using flower and bird rubbing plates. The kids pressed the rubbing plates into a clay tile and then painted them before firing. I think they turned out so beautiful! I would like to also [...]

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