Thursday, July 14, 2011

Cornstarch Clay Creatures

Having the kids in camp one at a time has been no easy challenge this summer to keep the at-home kid busy! Today, a request from Jordana "Please please pretty please can we make a necklace for my stuffed doggie at Camp Ema?", plus finding a homemade recipe for cornstarch clay prompted us to make beads...as well as a few other things!

I LOVE Family Fun magazine, it's got oodles of ideas for bored kids! Here's the recipe we used:

http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/crafts-by-material/clay-crafts/cornstarch-clay-802347/

We had to play around a bit with the amount of cornstarch, but finally got a nice texture -- and good thing Abba just cleaned out his bin of computer parts, had a good collection of screws and other things to use as accessories!







After everything was dry, we painted...





...and presenting Dogga's new jewelry!