Clay Pencil Pals

Jazz up your pencils by sculpting self-hardening clay into cute pencil toppers.	Safety Tips Small craft materials such as beads or wiggle eyes are choking hazards. Not appropriate for use by children below the age of three.
Materials Pencils Air dry modeling clay (e.g. Crayola Model Magic or Amaco cloud clay) Petroleum jelly Play dough cutting tools (optional) Decorative materials: pipe cleaner, craft wire, beads, sequins, rhinestones

Steps

	1.	Make the main body for your pencil topper by forming a small lump of salf-hardening clay into a ball.
	2.	Grease the top end of a pencil with petroleum jelly. The lubricant will allow you to remove the finished pencil topper from your pencil.
	3.	Gently insert the greased end of the pencil through the clay.
	4.	Mold the ball of clay into the intended shape. Pinching the bottom of my ball of clay makes it into the shape I chose- a strawberry!
	5.	Add some details with other colors of self-hardening clay. My strawberry needs a green crown on top.
	6.	Add more details if necessary. Little black seeds made from bits of black clay tops off my strawberry pencil topper.
	7.	Once you've put in all the details, let your pencil topper set overnight.

More Ideas

	Character pencil toppers are a great idea. Create clay pencil toppers of your favorite animals or cartoon characters.
	You may also go with a flat design such as a flower or a butterfly pencil topper. Make a band of clay to go around the pencil and attach the main design or character onto this band. Embedding other materials (e.g sequins, rhinestones, pipe cleaner, wiggle eyes, beads) onto your clay characters can make your pencil topper more interesting.
	Once the clay sets, the pencil toppers can be removed from the pencils.

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