Does the Easter Bunny Like His Carrots Glittered?

During my weekly blog stalking reading, I came across this great baking soda clay tutorial over at Creative "Try"als.  Her step by step tutorial for the clay is awesome and so easy to follow.  And I was oh-so-exited to have the 3 (yes 3!) ingredients for the clay; Obviously I had to give it a try!  While I love the adorable eggs, I was itching to make some carrots.  Some beautiful glittery shimmery carrots. 

I love how cute they turned out!  What's that?  You too have a need for more glittery awesomeness?  Well here ya go...

Make a batch of this awesome clay-dough

Shape the clay-dough into carrots (I shaped carrots in various sizes)

Using a skewer, poke a hole in the top of the carrot (this is where the green tops will be attached)

Let the carrots dry...and dry...and dry  (I helped the drying along a bit by baking the dough on 200 degrees for an hour - but I still waited overnight to ensure they were dry)

Paint one coat of orange craft paint (I mixed a few orange & mustard colors together to get an orange that I liked) and let dry

Paint a second coat and sprinkle with the wet paint with glitter (I used an orange glitter from JoAnn's dollar bin) and let dry

For the carrot tops, I used green foil used for wrapping candy.  I litterally saved the foil from Easter candy last year because the foil is nice and heavy and the color is on both sides.  Green scrapbook paper, shredded paper, felt or fabric would also work great.

Cut the foil/paper/fabric into thin strips (these are about 2 inches long - for the tiniest carrots, I folded them in half)

Add a little dab of hot glue into the hole on top of the carrot

Add the foil/paper/fabric strip and use a small pointy instrument to push the foil/paper/fabric into the hole (a toothpick would work perfectly - I used a leftover silk flower stem from another project that I was working on)

Continue adding strips until the top is full enough for your taste

Add your adorable carrots to a pretty container

Now I'm looking around the house for things to embellish with tiny glitter carrots :)


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