Getting Started:

Preheat oven to 250 °F. Test temperature with oven thermometer for perfectly cured clay. Condition all clay by kneading until it’s soft and smooth. Have an adult help you with baking your project.

Roll a ball of Lime clay that is approximately 1 inch in diameter. Gently press the ball onto the top of your pencil.

Create the nose by pinching the clay, using your thumb and forefingers. If you grasp the pencil in your hand and pinch from the bottom of the "face", you will create eye sockets.

Step 3 Green Guy
Now let's add some eyes. Roll small balls of Orange clay and flatten them. Add these to the head and then smaller balls of Lime to the Orange balls and poke a hole for the "pupil" of the eye. The hole also helps anchor the pieces of clay to the larger head piece.

Step 4 Green Guy
The mouth is created by added a small curved coil of Mango clay.

Step 5 Green Guy
The wild hair is a small ball of Pink clay that had been flattened on one side and stretched a little. Use the plastic knife to cut out triangles of clay to create the spikes. Once this piece is curved to fit the head shape, you can gently curl the tops of the spikes if you wish. Attach this to the top of the head and your Lime kid is ready for baking!

Step 1 Blue Kid
Repeat steps 1 through 3 above. To create the mouth, add a small flattened ball of Pink and then poked the hole for the mouth, so he looks like he is whistling!

Step 2 Blue Kid
His beret is a larger ball of Orange, flattened and attached to the head. Top this off with a small ball of Mango and your kid is ready to bake!

  Step 1 Mango Wild Hair Kid
Follow steps 1 and 2 for the green kid.

Step 2 Mango Wild Hair Kid
Use a toothpick to poke holes for the eyes and use the side of the tool to create the mouth.

Step 3 Mango Wild Hair Kid
Make small coils of Blue, Purple and a Mango clay about 2 inches in length. Twist these coils together.

Step 4 Mango Wild Hair Kid
Now alternate rolling the coils smooth on your worksurface and twisting to make the coils tighter. When you are satisfied with your pattern, pinch off 2 inch pieces of the coil. Jumble your pieces together and there is your hair!! Attach to the head.

  Baking
You can bake the kids on their pencils, but if you wish, you can gently remove the clay from the pencil and bake just the clay. Remember, bake at 250 °F for 10 minutes.