Tag Archives: polymer

Wax seals: a pre-Yom Kippur demo

Posted on 10/01/2014 | 4 comments

a stamp and shmear

My Director emailed last night: “do you have anything that shows how something is sealed?” I read between those brief lines and guessed Continue reading →

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Posted in Activity, Crafts, Rosh Hashanah / Yom Kippur

Tagged polymer, seal, wax

LEGO hamantaschen for Purim

Posted on 02/25/2013 | 2 comments

Couldn’t resist one more LEGO Purim post this year.

oznei haman (hamantaschen) for the minifigs

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Posted in Purim

Tagged clay, hamantaschen, polymer

Polymer clay Mini Megillah (w/ real scroll)

Posted on 02/21/2013 | 1 comment

polymer clay case (and detachable gragger) for a miniature scroll

I did not plan to make a Playmobil Megillah case today, but an unexpected email derailed me. Attached was a pdf of the whole Megillah in thumbnail miniature, fresh from the scribe who wrote the real thing. Frozen groceries melted on the counter while I ran upstairs for the clay box. A mini Megillah deserves a mini case, don’t you think? Continue reading →

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Tagged clay, Esther, gragger, Megillah, miniatures, polymer, sculpey

Mini Polymer Hamantaschen for Playmobil, LEGO, etc.

Posted on 02/15/2013 | 9 comments

Polymer clay hamataschen minis

Kids old enough to resist eating clay can duplicate the PlayDo Hamantaschen-Folding Practice on a mini scale with polymer or air-dry clay. I vote for polymer as the best choice: you use a tiny amount (which means it is cheap and easy to manipulate), you can pull the colors apart for do-overs, and the smoothy, firm nature of the clay is very forgiving in clumsy little hands. Continue reading →