During a visit, summer 2016, from my son and daughter-in-law and their sweet little girl Corin, we spent a lot of time playing with polymer clay. My kids and I had played with lots of Fimo, decades ago, but it was fun to resurrect that creative activity. Corin went away with many tiny objects, her dad made her the cutest sterling silver and polymer clay heart necklace and Pepsi and I made lots of polymer clay eggs. Here is one of her’s.
This egg-loo (igloo) became just that because my granddaughter saw the partly cut egg in my basket of scraps and mentioned it looked like an igloo… thus, I was compelled (haha) to turn it into just what she mentioned, and added a little soap carving style polar bear. He is fat from all that salmon, but is made from a cockatiel egg as his main body part, with legs and head added later. The egg-loo is made from a chicken egg, blown and washed, covered with polymer clay, cut out with a dremel cutting blade, covered with a rectangular yellow-white-transparent polymer clay and yellow iridescent powder so it will glow in the night (for a few hours per the source description) with a icy blue covering which was then indented as a mortar joint would be. Then the egg was cured, and the indented joints were filled with white polymer clay, cured again, and then sanded and coated with Varathane.
Just looking around and following links from google images of polymer clay eggs I found this nice tutorial for family clay time. It is simple enough for even a young kid and older kids can take it to an extreme level… fun for the whole family. find it HERE KAEL MIJOY’s website.
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This is a goose egg, which for whatever reason I felt needed to be recycled with a new look, and it was one of the first eggs onto which I put various left over scraps of polymer clay and polymer clay canes. It is kind of a “can I really do this” type of egg. I show the bottom here because I think that this is the part of the egg that really was the most fun part of the experiment.
Frog egg with butterfly made with real chicken egg and polymer clay is one of my favorite eggs so far. Just like “froggie” in the tp commercial, these eyes can never shut or forget, this tongue can never rest. Ha Ha. This animal egg took quite a few steps, initial covering of the whole egg, drilling out the holes, adding the layer of cane slices (which, by the way, contain commemorative flower petals, making this piece unique memorial-keepsake for someone), then adding eyes, eyebrows, legs, and lastly, the tongue (which has rose petals in it – the dark spots) and butterfly.
My grandaughter and her parents visited me in August 2016 and we had soooo much fun with polymer clay, and this is sort of a composite egg. I filled in a few blank places.
