Can you take play-do and put it in the oven and it will turn hard forever? of not what can you use?

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like is there a clay matereal you can buy from an arts store?

Answer 1

To dry playdoh, you do not have to do anything special. Just leave playdoh out and it will dry by itself. I think it tends to be very fragile, though.

Both fimo and sculpey are types of modeling clay that you have to harden in a conventional oven, not a kiln. They are, generally, available from crafts stores.

Answer 2

Play-do will just dry on its own without the oven but it really isn't the best medium for permanent sculpture. While it is non-toxic, unlike polymer clays like Fimo or Sculpey, I found from personal childhood experience that the models made from dried Play-do become dusty very easily and are difficult to dust due to the porous nature of the clay itself. They are also brittle and crumbly.

If you want non-toxic, bakable clay, try the old fashioned flour clay (flour, salt, water) or paper mache and either dye or paint it. Crayola has a brand of clay that is colored, non-toxic and air drying.

If toxicity is not an issue, stick with the polymer clays. Fimo is firmer, Sculpey is softer and closer to Play-do. Just be sure to clean your oven after baking or have a dedicated toaster oven!

Answer 3

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Can you take play-do and put it in the oven and it will turn hard forever? of not what can you use?
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Answer 4

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Answer 5

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Answer 6

DO NOT PUT PLAY-DOH IN THE OVEN!!!!!! In every arts store there are clays that you can back in the oven. Just ask an employ for help finding the clay.

Answer 7

As mentioned, Play Doh can be put into an oven, but only to speed up its air-drying. It will probably crack though if it's subjected to too much of a quick temperature change... best to leave it out overnight.

If you want a better type of "clay" though for permanent items, there are various other types of air-dry clay you can make at home or you can buy. At stores, you'd get things like Creative Paperclay (or Celluclay), or Makins clay, or Model Magic, etc.
At home you could make paper mash or papier mache, or make doughs and clays based on grains or other materials, which often have an adhesive added... here are some recipes for those:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLC,GGLC:1969-53,GGLC:en&q=homemade+clays+recipes


Or you might want to go with a "polymer" clay (which never air-dries because there's no water in it, only an oily substance, and which must be heated in a home oven to harden).

Some of the brands of polymer clay you'd see at a craft/hobby/art store would be Premo, FimoClassic, Kato Polyclay.... and FimoSoft, plus various Sculpeys.
If you're making something that will be thin or that will have have thin or projecting areas, you'll probably want one of the stronger brands like those first three, or perhaps FimoSoft.

Polymer clays come in single plain versions of white or Flesh (usually in boxes), or they come in small bars of many colors (usually in clear packages).
You can always paint over polymer clay when it's baked but it's lots more fun to build all the color into the clay.

There are also special polymer clay "colors" like translucent, glow-in-the-dark, stone-look, and metallic clays with either mica in them (which can do all kinds of special tricks) or with glitter in them, etc.

Polymer clays can be baked in a home oven or a toaster oven at a fairly low temperature for a fairly short time, or they can even be cured on a stovetop of in a roaster or in other ways using various techniques.

There's a huge amount of info on polymer clay at my website if you decide to check out that type of clay. I'd suggest looking at some of the pages called The Basics**, then perhaps looking at the "Kids & Beginners" page for lots of starter possibilties.
You can click on them all from this Table of Contents page, in the alphabetical navigation bar on the left side:
http://glassattic.com/polymer/contents.htm

or you can find them all on the home page too:
http://glassattic.com (....middle of page)

And here's a direct link just to the Kids&Beginners page there:
http://www.glassattic.com/polymer/kids_beginners.htm

HTH,

Diane B.

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**some of "The Basics" pages I'd recommend would be:


Gen. Info re polymer clay + overview
.....for newbies or anyone ...(what is polymer clay?) ...what all can be done with it !!!
http://glassattic.com/~glassatt/polymer/MainPages/info_letter.htm

Char's-clays,brands (clay brands & types, their characteristics, etc.)

Conditioning clays (preparing clays for use)

Baking (how to's, ovens, avoiding darkening, etc)

Tools (beginner tools, work surfaces, brayers, etc.)

Cutters-Blades-Templates (cookie-type, straight blades, etc.)

Books & Videos (+ magazines, TV shows, YouTube, etc.)

Safety, Cleaning, Health (clays+ baking "fumes," oven walls, cleaning, etc.)





HTH,

Diane B.

Answer 8

Play-dough hardens if you leave it out overnight. You don't need to bake it or anything like that.

Answer 9

http://www.paintnbake.com/