I was so delighted to travel north to my Mother's home for a few days this week. We always get together and enjoy crafting at least 4 times a year! This week we decided to make birds' nests for the Easter season. We bought some air dry clay (We used Crayola brand for this project) and rolled out some eggs. As you can see, I used about an inch of clay, and just rolled it between my palms. I set them out to air dry...however, as you can see in the finished and painted eggs in the top photo, they are cracked. This is because we got overly eager to paint them, and dried them in a 200 degree oven. The clay cracked because of this. We should have let them air dry at least 24 hours. However, we loved that the eggs were cracking, just like a chick was starting to hatch!!! The nest was super simple to make. We bought some party shredded craft paper, and in a plastic bowl, added some half and half white glue and water. We tossed it like a salad, and draped it entire mess over plastic wrap encased custard bowls. We let dry over night and just took them off of the bowls and flipped them over to hold our painted (with acrylic craft paints) eggs. So much fun, and a great time...Thanks, Mom!!!
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