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Re: Sculpey and Wetset

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PrimaryE_at_TeacherArtExchange
Date: Thu Apr 12 2001 - 07:10:39 PDT

I've baked sculpey with success except for one time when I did it late at
night in my house and my daughters asked me to do something upstairs and I
forgot about it and the pieces got brown but nothing really bad happened to
my oven or the clay. No fire started and amazingly the fire alarm didn't go
off. Remember we broil things at high temperatures when we normally cook.
Don't be afraid of sculpey. I teach a high school crafts class this year.
The kids made some pretty sophisticated small type of plates for themselves
that they want to stand up for display. The neat thing about sculpey is that
it doesn't dry out so it doesn't have to be covered with a wet cloth or put
in a plastic bag the way you would handle regular clay.

I inherited some Crayola Wetset but haven't tried it. Is it any good and is
it any stornger than any other clay that isn't baked? We don't have a kiln
in our school so except for Sculpey and Fimo I've stayed away from self
hardening clay since they usually are so fragile and break so easily. It
hardly seems worth the effort. EAC 

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