Handmade Air-Dry Clay S'mores Tictactoe

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Hello, how are you? Before the new year, my whole family, I mean five of us LOL, we go grocery shopping for the food we needed, we go as a whole because it is easier to grocery shop when five people are involved LOL.

Then I saw this brand of marshmallow I always buy before and I got one ofcourse and we are supposed to use it for smorse but we forgot, so when I remembered, I bought one, I made smores for us using kisses chocolate and our leftover graham cracker and baked it on oven. I feel inlove the taste of it so I can't stop eating it.

So I've been planning on making a tictactoe made in air dry clay, but I dont know what design I am going to use, so I decided what if I made smores out of it, so I did :D

Materials I Used:

Air Dry Clay
Cutting Mat
Acrylic Rolling Pin
Popsicles Sticks
Lid
X acto Knife
Cutter Blade
Spray Water Bottle
Sponge
Silicone Mat

Tree Brush Tool
Air Dry Clay Paste
Brush
Metal Ruler
Weighing Scale Portable
Needle Tool
Acrylic Paint
Paint Brush
Bottle With Water

Craft Time!

First is to condition the air-dry clay by kneading it with a wet hand.

Then I place two popsicle sticks as my reference for how thick the clay I am going to make. Using an acrylic rolling pin, I knead the air-dry clay to achieve the thickness I wanted.

After that, I am going to use this acrylic storage lid that is perfect for this size of tic-tac-toe I am going to make. I place the clay and press it down to make a mark of its size.

This is how it looks.

And using this long cutter blade, I cut each side of it.

This is how it looks.

I use this spray bottle and sponge to smooth out any imperfections when I cut the clay.

Now it is smooth! And then I place that air-dry clay into a silicone mat, and I set it aside for a while.

I grab another clay.

And then shape it again using the method I did earlier, but this time it is longer.

I also use the thickness of the border on the lid as my reference, so I cut to that size using a cutter blade.

Then I grab the clay I made earlier and, using this tree brush tool, scrape the side of it. This technique is used to make the other clay I am going to add connect more easily.

And then I use a clay paste which I made using mixing more water and air-dry clay. Adding it to the part that I scraped earlier.

Then, one by one, I added the long strip of clay I cut earlier.

And then I smooth it out with a wet sponge.

Using the paste I made earlier, I fill in the gap from the side of the clay. And then I smooth it out using a brush.

Now the body is smooth.

Then, after that, for the borders in the middle, I cut a long strip of clay again, but this time I made it thinner.

Using the metal ruler as my reference, how thick is the space are.

I added paste and scraped it for a better grip, and then I added it one by one.

I first add the middle part. And then the top, middle, and bottom parts.

And then using the paste and brush, I fill and smooth out any gaps. And then I set it aside for later.

Kisses Chocolate and Marshmallow:

Now I am going to make the kisses, chocolate, and marshmallows. What I do is I grab another air-dry clay and then weigh them equally for a better size.

Shape them into balls, and after that, I sculpt them into kisses, chocolate, and marshmallows.

I almost forgot to add the texture to the clay, so I am going to use this needle tool to add those. And then let the clay dry for about 1 to 2 days.

Adding Color:

Now that the air-dry clay is completely dry. I am going to paint it using acrylic paint. I first layer the body with light acrylic paint and let it dry before adding another layer.

And when the first layer is completely dry, I added another layer of paint on it.

While the body is still drying, I am going to paint the chocolate first, just like the first one, I layer it thin at the first layer. And then layer it again, and this is what it looks like.

Next is the marshmallow. I painted it with white first, and I forgot to document the process of adding the burnt part of the marshmallow, sorry, hehehe.