Q&A for How to Create Clay Animals

It's really easy. You just make a worm for the body, and make the wings like you make it into a circle, and you kinda make a curve in the middle. Then you can decorate it.

Take a ball of clay, roll it into a ball, and flatten it. Then, mold it into the desired shape, depending on the type of fish you are making. Make the eyes with black clay and add the details, such as fins. Scales can be made using a toothpick.

Curve your log of clay slightly. Pinch one of the ends in the middle so the clay splits off into two parts at the end, and smooth out the two parts of the tail. At the other end, squeeze a tiny bit of the end to create the beak. Poke holes for eyes, and, using a butter knife or your fingernail, press lightly all around the beak to form the mouth. Then, with a toothpick, poke a blowhole on the top of the head. Behind the head, squeeze clay on the back up to make the dorsal fin, and smooth and curve towards the tail. Finally, make the flippers by squeezing clay on the sides directly under the dorsal fin, and smooth out the flippers.

Make it like a dog, because the two are similar, but if you want to make a howling one, shut the eyes, open the mouth, and tilt it upwards, chin facing down.

You mold it the same as you would with a cat, but when it dries, paint spots.

Make a fish shape with blue clay, but make the tail end face upward and downward. Make a hole on the top (don't make gills or scales) for the blowhole.

Yes, if you don't have time to let it cure or paint. It's okay with play dough or people in a hurry.

Making a snake is very easy. Just roll out a log of clay. Make one end pointy and the other end flat. Add two black eyes with clay, beads, or poke the head (the flat end) with a toothpick to make eyes. Add a forked tongue if desired. Add dots, swirls, patterns, lines, and twirls if desired.

Yes, if it is just temporary. But if you are looking to make it permanent, then no.

You'll need seven pieces of clay: four feet, one long one for the body, a ball for the head and a long skinny piece for the tail. Pinch up two ears on top the head and draw in the face and whiskers. You can also make whiskers by rolling very thin bits of clay.

Try to model it after a tarantula, or a spider with thicker legs. The body may have to touch the ground slightly to support the rest.

Just follow the steps for a dog but do a small sphere for a tail and longer ears. Also, make its head a bit smaller and give it fatter back legs.🐇

You could make a cat, but with longer back legs, and make it standing up on its back legs. If you want to make one with a pouch and a baby, make a smaller version and put it near its stomach. Cut a piece of clay and put it over the baby's legs and stomach.

Roll a large oval with white clay for the body and add wool texture with an old toothbrush. Make a smaller oval out of black clay for the head. Roll snakes with black clay for the legs, and add eyes and ears to the head. Take the back of a clay blade or a ruler and make an indentation on the sheep’s chin for a mouth.

Make a white cat, then search up pictures of a snow leopard and copy the spots onto your cat with paint. Use the brush part that is not bristly for the spots to make them precise.

Make a snake with gray clay that tapers slightly at one end. Make a shorter, slightly thicker snake and attach it to the thicker side of the other snake perpendicularly. Add a triangle for a fin, and two more triangles for the tail. Use a safety pin or needle tool to create gills, and use two small white spheres for eyes.

Roll a ball, flatten it, add eyes with black clay, add the fins and tail, and then do the scales with a toothpick.

Make a ball with a pinched point, then add a nose and eyes make a thin clay snake to be the tail!

You can use cardboard, clay, or other materials to build homes for your clay animals. You could also use dollhouses.

Kind of like a snake, but a bit more flat. Give the mouth a rounded point and add legs like a lizard's. Add triangles to give it the spikes along the back.

Just make it like the dog. Make it white and add black spots, horns, and a black, flat-looking, bean-shaped tail.

Make a sphere for the head and an oval for the body. Next, make six balls of clay: two about twice the size of the other four. Roll one side of each of the balls to make teardrop shapes. Flatten the two larger ones, and cut off the pointy parts. Attach these larger ones for ears and the smaller ones for legs (this works best if the bunny is “humanized,” where it stands on its hind legs and uses its front legs as arms). Add a ball of clay for a tail, and put on facial features as desired. For the carrot, make a teardrop shape with orange clay, and add several small green snakes for the stem. Attach the carrot to your rabbit’s belly and position it to look like the rabbit is holding it.

You can roll them out and take something out to smooth it with the rest of the body.

Roll the clay into sphere, then add eyes. Tear the clay into triangle as curved, then make a nose by using an oval if pressed, then make 2 big holes. Add the pink ear inside, then make the mouth worm-like. Make the pig's body - to make the torso, make an oval, then add a tail in clay to look like a spring, then add limbs. Make a fat snake tube, then add hooves, use the shorter cylinder and use a toothpick to make the hoof to finish. Color - pink will do.