FIMOair Original-looking Easter Bunnies

8/11/2019 FIMOair Original-looking Easter Bunnies

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level of difficultyeasy medium hard

Original-looking Easter bunniesFresh off the catwalk: Bunnies in smart trousers.

Its easy to make father, mother and baby bunnies with air-drying, clay-likemodelling clay. Each bunny has a big polystyrene egg hidden inside its body tokeep it nicely in shape.

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material

As well as polystyrene eggs: For one large bunny: 1 x 200 mm tall polystyrene egg(16 cm in diameter, two-piece); for one medium-sized bunny: 1 x 150 mm tall polystyreneegg (10 cm in diameter, two-piece); for one small bunny: 1 x 100 mm tall polystyrene egg(8 cm in diameter, two-piece)

Additionally required: Smooth work surface made out of glass or ceramic, flat, smoothplate, bowl, kitchen knife, small glass (approx. 3-4 cm in diameter), A4 paper and scis-sors, brushes (soft synthetic hair, flat brush in sizes 10 and 14, round brush in sizes 8 and10), acrylic paints (white, cherry red, light blue, dark blue, light pink, pink, vanilla, light

green), wooden skewers, deco flowers and ribbon, all-purpose glue (transparent)

You will need these STAEDTLER articles:For one large, one medium-sized and one small bunny:

product colour art. no. quantity 3

FIMO air basic White 8100-0 3

Lumocolor permanent duo Black 348-9 1

Acrylic roller -- 8700 05 1

Modelling tools -- 8711 1

Shaped cutters -- 8724 03 1

Grind'n polish set -- 8700 08 1

Gloss varnish -- 8704 01 BK 1

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Original-looking Easter bunnies


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Put both halves of the large polystyrene egg togetherand get a bowl of water ready.

Print out the ear pattern sheet, cut out, place onto asheet of FIMOair light and then cut out twice, goingaround the edges with the kitchen knife. Roll out one

block of FIMOair basic to an approx. 0.5 cm thick sheetusing the acrylic roller. Wrap the sheet around the eggand press together at the top and bottom. Add more

pieces of clay to any bare areas until the egg iscompletely covered. The individual pieces of clay shouldmeet at the join but not overlap.

Next, smooth over all the joins using your finger and alittle water until the seams are no longer visible.

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We now recommend your stand your bunny on a flatplate to allow you to turn the bunny back and forth asrequired as if it were on a turntable.

With moist fingers, stroke all over the bunny in circularmotions to make the surface nice and smooth. Use a

sharp-pointed modelling stick to make indents for thehorizontal waist band, the contours for the inside of theears and trouser stripes. For a polka-dot pattern, use the

small glass to make circular indents; for a heart design,use the shaped cutter.

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For the feet and tail respectively, roll small portions ofFIMOair basic to a ball and then form to an oval shape.

Stand the covered polystyrene egg up, push the feet andtail underneath, press the egg down onto them andsmooth over the joins with your finger.

Push a whole (large bunny) or half a wooden skewerinto the cut-out FIMOair basic ear from the bottom end.

Stick the ear skewer into the body.

Smooth over the joins with your finger.

Instructions for original-looking Easter bunnies

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Tip:Unfinished items and left-over bits of material canbe stored in a sealed plastic bag or airtight

container, e.g. a plastic box or jar.


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Allow the bunnies to dry thoroughly at roomtemperature. Should any cracks appear, fill them withfresh modelling clay, even out and allow to dry again.

Then smooth over with a sanding sponge. Paint asrequired. Once the paint has dried, draw on the face

using the Lumocolor permanent duo marker.

Varnish to finish off and then stick on a flower or

decorate with a bow.

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Instructions for original-looking Easter bunnies

creativetoday / C. Rueckel

Tipp:Alternatively, you can make bunnies out of FIMOairlight. The long-eared cuties are then so lightweightthey can be used to make a mobile and hung up in

the window.


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Pattern sheet for bunny ears

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FIMOair Original-looking Easter Bunnies