Crayola Air Dry Clay, Natural White, 5lbs

Great bang for your buck.m, but man I didn’t realize how hard they are to scoop! They break easily and it hard to stick into things.

Muy útil, seca excelente y cumple con todo lo que dice definitivamente la vuelvo a comprar

Wow this works like real pottery with half the time and no spinning wheel! I bought this for my students and we made beautiful art for Mother’s Day. No residue left on hands, easy play dough texture to work with and drys within a couple days to paint and decorate. Easy and quick fun activity.

This was, quite frankly, NOT a good time. I used this clay a lot when I was little, and never managed to finish my container of it. It was SO much fun, using it—I have vivid memories of it from YEARS ago, and I still have the various objects and figures that I’d made with it—very few of which are cracked. In fact, the only ones that cracked were ones that were WAYYY too fragile, in the first place—and which broke due to my own mishandling.

I would absolutely recommend this clay for younger sculptors, or those who aren’t really picky about detail or smoothness. It’s very soft, and easy to mould—but it gets INCREDIBLY sticky if you use too much water, or if you’re just handling it too much. If you’re trying to create miniature objects, let me warn you in advance—if the blob of clay that you are using is too small, it will start to CRUMBLE.

I was super excited to use this clay, and finish up a project I’d been working on all week. I’m an adult doll collector + customizer, and I’ve been using clay to sculpt new facial features and body types for my dolls. Thankfully, I didn’t use any of this for my dolls—as I now realize that it would have ended in disaster—but I used quite a bit of it to try to finish up a miniature daybed (roughly 12 inches long and eight inches wide) that I’ve been working on. I was using a bunch of tiny blobs of clay to add an artsy, wobbly edge to the wood + cardboard + hot glue frame, and smoothing the blobs out with water.

I’d read that this clay will crack if you use too much water—and so I used it incredibly sparingly. I dabbed my fingers in a mug of water, and then smoothed the clay out; I used virtually no water with the clay. There was one spot where there was a crack in my wooden frame, and so I had to use a little extra water—and I anticipated that spot to crack due to structural reasons alone.

I left my clay to dry for nearly twenty-four hours, and, when I returned, everything had cracked. The border around the edges of the bed had numerous deep cracks running through the length of what I’d sculpted. A few part of the border broke off entirely. Where I’d noted the aforementioned structural crack, and where I’d patched it with clay, the entire thing was RUINED, spider-webbed with cracks. In other structurally important areas (inner corners and around the base of the wooden posts at each corner), there were cracks along the seams.

I wondered if I’d used too much water, shrugged it off, and patched the cracked areas with extra clay. I tried not to use water, but, for the aesthetics of my build (and for the ease of painting), I dabbed a my fingers into my mug a few times here and there. Again—I used DROPLETS of water, at most. I left it alone for a few hours—and, when I checked in on it again, it had already begun to crack again.

This clay is incredibly unforgivable. It gets sticky easily, and it cracks at a whim. It doesn’t smooth out well for detail work, and it refuses to work with water—which, I’d argue, is a sculptor’s #1 basic tool. It’s cheap, and it works well for kids—but for the basic sculpting needs that I have, it doesn’t work at all. I will be returning it.

I love it! The white of the clay is perfect, you don’t have to just be a kid to use it, I’m almost 30 and had a blast, great for many ages! It’s so much fun to create anything you want without having to bake it or wait that long! The clay has a great texture, it doesn’t smell weird, and it’s easy to sand down and paint on! I got the big tub thinking it was gonna be heavy and it wasn’t, the clay is light and the tub doesn’t take up that much space!

Ivory purchased this many times my daughter and I love making things with this clay it works great easy to work with get smooth lines dries normal you can paint it once it’s dry easy to mold with fun activity container keeps clay safe from drying out although I do put in a ziplock bag