Crayola Air Dry Clay (5lbs), Natural White Modeling Clay for Kids, Sculpting Material, Bulk Craft Supplies for School Classrooms

Okay! I did not imagine of all the brands/kinds of clay I could use, that Crayola was going to be my best bet. I had an idea to make lamp shades to hang over my bedside tables. I used two different brands first which failed miserably. I'm blown away by the quality of crayola air dry clay. It was SO easy to use. Simply rolled out, shaped over a large bowl and let dry for two days. THAT easy. There was no weird smell and I was able to get two shades out of one container for 1/4 of the price of other clays that were much harder to manipulate and shape. It's been 6 months and there hasn't been a crack or signs of wear at all. I scored BIG with this!

It's a good clay for smaller projects with less detailing (especially for children's assignments) but it tends to not hold its weight well on larger pieces and cracks easily the bigger it gets. Overall an alright clay if kept under the right conditions (constant hydration and proper storing). It's actually great for the price.

I bought this clay for a class project and it turned out to be just what we needed it! It was clean (as clean as clay can be) and my class had fun with it! It was perfect for what we needed!

Bought this to make Christmas ornaments with and my 2 year old LOVES playing with it…more than Plato. It dries in about 3 days if left out on the counter. It worked well for making Christmas ornaments…I tried making a little jewelry dish but it broke immediately when I picked it up after fully drying. I’m not a ceramics enthusiast, so I don’t know much but for arts and crafts with kids it great. It does leave a white film on the counter if you don’t wipe down your area enough after using.

I know a lot of reviews are mixed because of the cracking of the clay but I will say it is good for beginners although I feel like you’re better off making big pieces because the smaller it is the more likely it will have pieces falling off or breaking off. I will also say it’s a little harder to work with than other softer clays.

Okay so, I've been working with the clay since i gotten it and i am very pleased with it. Just like all air dry clay it's a bit brittle easy to break and you have yo let it dry extremely slow to prevent cracks. Anyways I ordered the 5lb one. Personally i am not a fan of how the clay stains but i can live with that. It's very easy to work with as well, something i enjoy i enjoy it even more because it came with a bucket

We used it for seeds bombs at the seed swap...also Made beautiful ornaments, but you need to weight it down while drying as it tends to curl up...

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.