Cornstarch Clay Food

CORNSTARCH CLAY

Steps:

• In a medium saucepan, combine all ingredients and stir until smooth.
• Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until it holds its shape.
• Remove from heat and turn out on a baking sheet. When cool enough to handle, place on a work surface dusted with corn starch, kneed until smooth.

CORNSTARCH GLUE

Steps:

• Combine ingredients into a saucepan and stir until smooth.
• Heat over medium heat until thick and translucent.
• Allow it to cool to touch.
• Lay large cookie cutters on parchment paper.
• Have child take foot long pieces of yarn, placing it in the glue.
• Run yarn between thumb and forefinger to remove excess glue.
• Lay inside cookie cutter.
• Repeat until you have a thin layer of yarn inside the cutter.
• With clean hands, press yarn flat.
• Carefully remove cutter and let your design dry, about 24 hours.
• Use red, white and pink yarn in heart cutters, different shades of green for Christmas trees, pumpkin cutter and orange and a little brown for the stem, what ever you want.