Features:

  • Great for both classroom and studio use
  • Helps build hand strength and fine motor skills
  • Perfect for all ages
  • Super pliability
  • Doesn't require oven baking
I love, love

I love, love , love this clay!!! I make fairy homes with it, is the best one I have tried. I wish it was less expensive... But it is a good investment for me, no cracks and it dries white ready to paint!!! YEAH! It is easy to work with and very malleable, also easy to add on and it sticks to it self ( I ad watered down Elmer's glue in between my small pieces additions) I do have a spray battle close by and I smooth it out with my wet fingers. I also prepare the clay half hour before I am using by spraying it and keep it in a air tight container. After I am done I brush my hands off and clean all my tools. My hands never feel dry after using DAS.I am 58 years old.

Easy to use, holds detail well.

I made a gnome tree house with this clay and love it! Holds detail very well! The tree and fungus on the tree are made from this clay. Smaller shrooms, frog, gnome are sculpey.

This is the only air dry clay I will use ...

This is the only air dry clay I will use; everything else I've tried has been of a lower quality. It doesnt crack on you and its hard/soft enough for carving.

Works for Me!

I am planning a special project that will be in an exhibition. I studied air dry clays online. I tried a few that cracked. The most positive comments were about DAS. I tried it. I kneaded it in manageable balls until it was malable. I kept my hands wet. I added water when it seemed a little dry, but not too much. I almost used a whole 2.2 lb block. I built a simple 10 inch mesh cone person with an aluminum foil head. It was covered with 1/8 - 3/4 in of DAS - different thicknesses. I read that air dry clay cracks when dried too quickly. I cut holes in a large ziplock and left it open at the bottom. It dried slowly for two days covered loosely. Then I took the bag off and let it finish drying for about 24 hours. Perfect! Rock hard! It can be sanded. Absolutely No Cracks. Dried White. I am thrilled with this clay. I wonder what would happen if I just let it air dry with out the zip lock bag. Maybe I will experiment further. I am ready to start my project with the right clay!

Wonderful to use

This is a self-drying clay (for those of us who don't have kilns) and comes in terra cotta as well as white. I have made everything from plaques to display boxes to delicate jewelry with it. The only drawback is that you can't use it for food. No matter what kind of coating or paint you put on it, it is not going to hold up; it's merely for display. But for gifts of all kinds, (including for yourself!) it is a joy to use. Clean-up is easy (soap and water) and it does take some time to dry, depending on the thickness of your masterpiece, so patience is a virtue. But it's wonderful to use.

Perfect and easy to use

This clay was great i used it to sculpt a tiny mask for a custom action figure and even though i made the mask SUPER thin the clay still hardened perfectly and turned out awesome. im selling the figure on the app called "Mercari" if you want to see more photos of how well the mask dried and hardened.

It’s worth it!

I’m in love with this clay, there are endless possibilities without the stress of baking. I used the clay to make Christmas ornaments for my family and they turned out beautiful! They’re about 1/4in and super durable. They took a while to dry and I had to keep flipping them because they would start to curl upwards. They took about 3 days to dry so don’t expect a quick project. I used acrylic paint to paint them and it went on super smoothly, it’s easier to paint this clay than is it to paint on canvas. I have included pictures of the painted finished project, the clay ornaments drying, and a picture of the dry, unpainted ornaments. Overall super happy with this purchase... I’ve found a new hobby for sure :)

Great clay that produces stable sculpts. Like CPC, but about half the price.

There are many art clays. Air dry clay falls into two categories: non-reinforced clays, like Laguna Wed Clay, Aramaco, Crayola air dry clay, and the cellulose fiber reinforced clays, like DAS and Creative Paper Clay (CPC). Non-reinforced clay becomes very brittle when dry; it shrinks, and cracks, and is lousy for thin section pieces, such as fingers on a hand. DAS and Creative Paper Clay are stable when they dry. A sculpture will last indefinitely indoors. But reinforced clay dries much faster, so your working time is limited. If your project demands a lot of time, then neither this nor CPC is the clay for you. Both DAS and CPC produce a dried sculpt resembling balsa wood, kind of between cardboard and wood. Of the two, DAS shows no appreciable shrinkage whereas CPC does shrink some. DAS seems keeps better than CPC and DAS is about half the price. But DAS is a little stiffer than CPC, though not significantly. DAS has a pleasant odor, like leather, and the clay is kind of like working with leather in clay form. Overall, for small projects, this is a great clay for the money.

Good product, a little funky to use

I bought this after seeing it recommended from a YouTube content provider. It is a good product overall. This review is more directed toward my own experience on the ease of use and should not be seen as negative to the product itself. I have a feeling this product is more geared to someone who has reasonable experience with other types of media, such as clay, cold porcelain, etc. Using this for me was tricky. I found that I needed to moisten the product many times to get it to a consistency to be able to manipulate it. It's helpful if you have a knife or other tool to shear off what amount you need as the Das is a bit hard to just pull pieces off. It has an unadulterated consistency that is reminiscent of paper mache' that is very compact and does not contain much moisture,. One aspect I am not sure of is how you can obtain a smooth surface with this when molding, etc. My test project while moist had faults and lines through it. My second project was to use the Das clay to mold a positive to use as a base. For this, as I had found my test piece, though it dried hard, was not as hard as I had hoped for. To aid this I mixed PVA glue into the clay before pressing it into the mold. It dried much harder but it still had creasing and such, which for this project was fine. The biggest positive of using Das is that you can sand it and paint it with relative ease after it has dried. One thing to note, if you are using it in a mold, it can take many days to fully dry, and pulling it from the mold can be tricky without messing up parts that are still moist. Overall this is a useful product, isn't priced in such a way as to be prohibitive for someone who has never used it to give it a try. In skilled hands, I am sure this delivers end results as shown on the packaging. But if you are a novice like myself, you may want to work up to sculpting with Das.

Love DAS Air Dry Clay and have been using it for years.

I bought this last package a year ago this August. I hadn't been using it much and needed to recently. I thought for sure it would be dried out and useless, but it was fine. I stored it in it's original package taped closed, placed in a ziplock freezer bag and then placed that in another freezer bag. I used the clay on the models' lips and noses because the features on styrofoam heads are often not all that attractive. I used water on my fingers, smoothing the surface and let dry for a couple of days. I can then go back with various dremel bits and finish shaping to my liking. The edge of the mosaic is DAS pressed into a IOD mold and glued on WHILE STILL WET. That insures it takes the exact shape of the substrate. A few small cracks formed in the cast pieces but in this case it just added to the character of the piece so I am more than happy with how it performed. Last year when I bought this package there were multiple offers for this brand and when I came to purchase more I found only 3 or 4. I'm purchasing today and know that if stored properly it will last a long time. I highly recommend this clay. btw, I did not notice any odor at all.

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