Supplies & Tools:
- Sculpey III in the following colors:
- WhiteAtomic OrangeYellow
- Lime Green
- Pastel chalk, pink
- Q-tip
- Sharpie extra fine permanent marker
- Needle tool or toothpick
- Black seed beads
- Clay dedicated pasta machine
- Parchment paper lined cookie sheet
- Kemper clay punches 3/8” heart and circle
- 1 ½” pin back and E6000 glue.
Directions: Candy Corn is made from a bulls-eye of white, atomic orange and yellow clay. Make a 7/16 ball of white, flattened into a ½” circle. Wrap a ¼” thick snake of atomic orange around the white. Wrap an 11/64” thick snake of yellow around the orange. Your bulls-eye should be approx 1” wide. Cut the bulls-eye into pie wedges. Bake the wedges. After they are cooled, draw dash lines around the candy corn and across the colors. Set aside.
Body is a ¾” ball of white clay shaped into a 2” long tapered egg shape, flattened to approx, ½” wide. Pinch the narrow end and curve end up towards body.
Arms are two 1 ¼”x ¼” thick tapered logs. Press the tapered end of the top of the body.
Head is a 9/16” ball of white clay shaped into a 1” long tapered egg flattened to approx, ½” wide. Pinch the narrow end and curve end up towards head. Press onto the top of the body by the arms. Using the circle cutter, press half of the cutter into the face to make the smile, or you can use needle tool to draw smile. Dot corners of the mouth with the needle tool. Chalk the dots. Insert seed beads for the eyes. Using the needle tool, add two lines on the outside corners for expression lines. Add a 11/64” ball of line clay for nose, shape the ball in to a oblong shape. Press onto the head of the ghost.
Bow Tie is 2 hearts cut from lime clay rolled out at #3 setting on pasta machine. Press hearts at the base of the head. Mark with needle tool. Add a 11/64” ball for the knot.Place a piece of candy corn in the middle of the ghost’s body and place arms over the top to hold it in place. You can make a pumpkin out of ½”ball of atomic orange, flatted to ¾” wide. Use needle tool to mark and insert a ½” piece of round toothpick for stem. Place on ghost like the candy corn.
Bake on parchment lined cookie sheet according to manufacturer’s directions. . Cool, glue pin back on the back using E6000 glue. |
