{"id":1816,"date":"2003-03-16T09:28:06","date_gmt":"2003-03-16T17:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2009-02-12T09:29:39","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T17:29:39","slug":"baking-soda-and-corn-starch-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/baking-soda-and-corn-starch-clay\/","title":{"rendered":"Baking Soda and Corn Starch Clay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fichtenfoo.com\/images\/tips\/clay.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" align=\"right\" \/>Start with a wooden base. My base is a stained\/finished wooden plaque that I bought at Michael&#8217;s Crafts. The landscape is made from a base of styrofoam, then<\/p>\n<p>covered in a baking soda\/cornstarch clay. Here&#8217;s the recipe:<\/p>\n<p>1 cup baking soda<\/p>\n<p>1\/2 cup corn starch<\/p>\n<p>3\/4 cup water<\/p>\n<p>Mix baking soda and corn starch in a non-stick pan. Stir in water over medium heat and stir continuously until mixture becomes the consistency of mashed potatoes. About 3-5 minutes. Remove immediately from heat an place into airtight container. After ten minutes (or when cooled off a bit) knead dough until smooth. (Overcooking the dough will make it crumbly.) Clay will dry overnight. Some shrinking will occur and cracks will occur as well, so keep a little extra clay to fill those in.<\/p>\n<p>Cover styrofoam and wood with clay, sculpt hills, valleys, etc. and let dry.<\/p>\n<p>Next, I will need to prime the landscape before I begin painting\/gardening.<\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Ffichtenfoo.net%2Fblog%2Fbaking-soda-and-corn-starch-clay%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;font=trebuchet+ms\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 3px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start with a wooden base. My base is a stained\/finished wooden plaque that I bought at Michael&#8217;s Crafts. The landscape is made from a base of styrofoam, then covered in a baking soda\/cornstarch clay. Here&#8217;s the recipe: 1 cup baking soda 1\/2 cup corn starch 3\/4 cup water Mix baking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/baking-soda-and-corn-starch-clay\/\"><span>Continue Reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5],"tags":[277,30,242,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1817,"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions\/1817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}