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Use cinnamon clay to make year-round pomadors. (They smell great in the kitchen and in closets. Use your favorite cookie cutters (butterfly, teddy bear, flower, heart, cat, dog, star, whatever) and use a non-holiday color ribbon for hanging. Decorate as desired with paints, lace, etc.







Make refrigerator magnets by eliminating the hanging hole and gluing a piece of craft magnet on the back of your dried clay shape.





Jewelry: Flat clay shapes can be made into pins by gluing a pin jewelry clasp on the back.


Roll clay into beads (be sure to remember to poke a hole in each one before it dries).







Make 3-dimensional pins and magnets by using candy molds or your hands to shape the clay instead of rolling and cutting (make sure the back is flat and smooth so you can glue on a pin back or magnet).







More Christmas ornament ideas: Roll clay into thin ropes and shape into candy canes or the outline of bells, stars, trees, etc. Dry flat and decorate and hang with a ribbon.







Make a handprint plaque for a parent or grandparent by letting a child press one or both hands into a flattened lump of clay. If desired, trace child's name, age, or message onto the clay with a toothpick before it dries, or decorate with paints or alphabet pasta after drying. Make a hole in the soft clay for a ribbon hanger, or press a picture hanger or a loop from a paper clip securely into soft clay at the back, or after drying glue on a plaque hanger.



A small handprint plaque can be used as a paperweight.






A pencil/pen holder can be made by making holes all over the top of a lump of clay to stick pens and pencils into. If you add a little head at one end and little feet sticking out on the sides, the finished item will resemble a porcupine when full of pens and pencils, and can also be used for a paperweight.