Sculpting a Black Lab from Polymer Clay

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The class has finished a dog head and a laying down dog. Now it's time for a  dog who's been told to "Sit!" and is waiting for his treat.  Since many of the kids have black labs as pets, we decided to do these.



We used Fimo III polymer clay, which says "soft" on the packaging. Usually "soft" Fimo III clay is only a tad softer than the other types, but the black has a tendancy to be very soft and sticky. You will not need to warm this black up in your hands to work with it. It was so sticky that I ended up making and baking the "toothpick heads"  in advance, and then letting the class build the body, insert the pre-baked head, and  put on the ears and eyes. That was still a challange for kindergartners, put they turned out awesome! These need to be baked at 225 for 15 minutes.