Make Your Own Erasers

August 10th, 2008 Edit

Sculpey has this new eraser polymer clay out that we have been having fun with. You just need to bake it for 10 minutes for each 1/4 inch of thickness.

For these fish our children used push out molds. Make sure you spray well with water because it’s extremely sticky. For that reason you need to take them out of the molds immediately. I used cooking oil spray and it worked out.

My kids didn’t feel confined to traditional colors so made a cheerful bright blue dolphin and a pink whale.

There’s enough to make plenty more and we’ll do some more later. If they’re not up to it I think I’ll go ahead and make a couple of these silly heads on my own. You start by shaping a ball of clay onto your pencil. See Meet the Kids! Pencil Toppers for more.

There are tons of other eraser ideas on Sculpey’s website including Halloween projects, flowers, cars, animals and food.

They do actually erase about as well as those pink erasers. There are better out there but I think they’re cute. The fact that they made these ones will also make them less likely to lose them.

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