Swamped With Alligators!
What’s climbing out of the dark, oozing swamp with its jaws wide open? Watch out for a ‘gator or two! Sculpt a scene that will send your friends running for safety it looks so real.
1. Start your murky swamp scene by flattening out a large handful of brown Crayola Model Magic® compound with your hands.
2. Along one side of the swamp, add a strip of light green modeling material. Build lush plant life in and among the rocks with Model Magic bits. Blend colors such as brown, yellow, and white with green to create a variety of natural colors. Cut leafy underbrush with scissors. Mold and curl stalks and leaves. Create a realistic scene for your big-jawed creatures. Fresh from the pack, Model Magic sticks to itself. If the compound starts to dry, just attach pieces with glue.
3. Mix green Model Magic with black to create an alligator hide color. Roll it into a log and shape it into a gator’s outline—rounded snout, flipper-like legs, and powerful tail. Pinch along the back of the form to get the texture of this swamp creature. When you are happy with the shape, begin to add details using small coils and balls of modeling material. Imagine a large grinning mouth and bulging eyes on the top of your gator’s head.
4. To give the impression of a partially submerged critter, make another gator. This time make only some parts such as head, back, and tail (the parts you might see before it sinks into the mud and muck).
5. Make floating plants and weeds to camouflage the animals. What other animals do you want in your swamp scene? Maybe include a bird hanging out in the gator safety zone (not a lot of animals will bother it on a gator’s back). How about a frog or two, to supply some food for these big eaters? Air-dry your sculpture for 24 hours.
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Crayola Modeling Materials including Crayola Model Magic®, and Model Magic Fusion™, Crayola Air-Dry Clay, and Crayola Dough—
- Keep away from open flames. Do not use to make candleholders, hot plates, trivets, or other similar objects that will be used or placed near fire and other heat sources.
- Do not put in an oven, microwave, or kiln.
- Do not make into vessels/containers that will hold unpackaged food.
- The use of modeling material to make items that look like food is discouraged for children younger than age 5 to avoid their confusion with real food.
- Unless sealed with a water-resistant glaze, do not make projects exposed to or immersed in water, such as boats or outdoor bird feeders. They would disintegrate when exposed to moisture.
- Crayola Dough—contains gluten (wheat flour) as an ingredient.
- Crayola Air-Dry Clay, Crayola Model Magic and Model Magic Fusion are gluten-free. However, they are produced on the same machinery as Crayola Dough which does contain gluten. Although the machines are cleaned prior to the start of each production run, there is a slight possibility that trace amounts of gluten from Crayola Dough may be present in the other modeling compound products. For information regarding specific ingredients or allergic concerns, please call our Consumer Affairs department at 1-800-272-9652 weekdays between 9 AM and 4 PM Eastern Standard Time.
Modeling Tools—Use the least dangerous point or edge sufficient to do the job. For example, craft sticks, plastic knives and forks, and cookie cutters can cut or carve modeling materials.
Scissors—ATTENTION: The cutting edges of scissors are sharp and care should be taken whenever cutting or handling. Blunt-tip scissors should be used only by children 4 years and older. Pointed-tip scissors should be used only by children 6 years and older.
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