So, we have the clay, now it’s time to make something. New Year is at hand, and so today we will make New Year cookies, but not from flour; we will make cookies from clay.
Our neighbors Europeans have a wonderful tradition – to decorate the Christmas tree with decorated cookies. Apart from the fact that it is very delicious, it is very beautiful as well. They even have a fairytale about the man made from this kind of cookies – Gingerbread man.
So, let’s begin. Take a piece of clay well kneaded, place it on the cloth and roll it with a rolling pin. Roll the clay 4-5 mm thick.
Now cut out cookies of different forms. Here you will need molds which you can make yourself from a can, or buy them in the store.
With the help of a mold cut out cookies.
You can add an earlet on some cookies to run in a string. That’s how you can make it: take a small piece of clay, roll down a ball and glue it by using liquid clay slurry. Make a hole with a stick and then pierce through with a stab-awl or a knitting needle.
When the cookies dry up a little, start decorating. For this we will need white clay (you can buy it in the pharmacy or a beauty shop. The color of such clay can become cream or grey after burning.
Mix clay with water thoroughly till it becomes like sour cream. Then take a ball syringe, fill it with clay, stick a piece of a ballpoint pen refill into it, and then squeeze clay out of the syringe, ornament the cookies. To have straight lines, without disruptions and thickening, first practice on a piece of cardboard or leftover pieces of clay.
When you finish decorating leave your cookies to dry for a day or two. And then burn them in the kiln.
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