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"Red White and Blue"
Design by Kris Richards
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Materials:
- 1/4 package
each: (makes about 4 flags!) of Sculpey III or Premo! Sculpey polymer
clay
- Red 083
or Cadmium Red Hue 5382
- White 001
or White 5001
- Blue 063
or Ultramarine Blue 5562
- Plastic knife
or wooden or plastic sculpting tool or similar tool to cut clay
- Clean work
area (suggestion: use masking tape to secure a piece of clean white
paper to a table for your work area)
- Plastic roller
tool, old rolling pin dedicated to clay, or a smooth sided drinking
glass
- Oven set to
bake reliably at 275 degrees Fahrenheit
- Clean old baking
pan, cookie pan, or doubled foil sheet
- Pin back
- Super glue
Directions:
- Divide the
clay colors as shown using your sculpting tool or plastic knife.
- Roll the red
piece of clay and the large white piece of clay into long skinny
tubes.
- Press the red
and white tubes together down their whole length.
- Flatten the
blue clay with a roller or smooth glass to the same thickness as
the red and white tubes, and cut into a rectangle. Cut the red and
white stripes about two inches long for the bottom two stripes.
Press the outside edge of the blue rectangle downward into the stripes.
Press two more stripes next to the side of the blue rectangle.
- Finish with
two more stripes. Make sure all the stripes stick well together
and to the rectangle.
- Roll the extra
small white piece of clay into a very skinny tube. Use the clay
tool to cut several little bits off the end of the tube. Roll them
all into very tiny equal-sized balls. Press them down into the blue
rectangle, beginning at the top left-hand corner. Make a row of
white dots.
- Press as many
white dots in as will fit. (This is not a "real" flag. If it were,
you would have 13 stripes - 6 white and 7 red, and 50 stars!). Make
several flags if you wish.
- Have an adult
help you bake them on the baking sheet at 275 degrees fahrenheit
for 30 minutes, remove to cool, add pin back using super glue.
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