Clay Easter Egg Ornaments Kid Craft

Clay Easter Egg Ornaments - A Kid's Craft by Erin Reed

March is Youth Art Month, so lets make a kids clay craft!! My 2 younger kids love to color, and to color on something different, like clay and textured clay, and they thought that this idea was awesome!!!

Materials:

Makin's Clay® - White

Makin's Professional® Cutting Mat

Makin's®

Clay Tools
Texture Sheets set H and C

Oval or round clay clutters in desired size
Crayola "Extreme" Markers - Note: we recommend using non-water based markers.

Spray sealant

Instructions:

1) Roll out white Makin's Clay® with the clay roller to about 1/8" thick and cut out as many oval shapes as you can, if you do not have an oval cutter, then circles work too. Shape each shape into a egg looking shape with your hands. To create a hole to hang your eggs, either make a small hole in the top while the clay is still fresh, or let dry 24 hours then punch a hole with a heavy duty hole punch.

2) Add some texture to the eggs by placing a Makin's® texture sheet over the egg and gently pressing to transfer the texture to your egg. Adjust the shape with your hands as needed if adding the texture effects it. I used the all 4 from Set H and the Lace from Set C, but really any fun texture would look really cool!

Let the eggs dry until you can pick them up without them "drooping". Let the kids have fun coloring them, we used washable markers, which may smear, but paint would work too! Let the eggs dry for 24 hours. If using non-permanent markers, once the markers have dried on the clay it is recommended you seal the finished eggs with a spray sealant to help eliminate smearing of the markers. Add ribbons when the eggs are finished.