Clay Cactus 🌵 Ring Holder!

Ever need a place to hold your rings without it falling off or getting lost? Well this is now a way that you can hold your rings and make it look fashionable and cute at the same time! So say goodbye to losing your rings because now there is a more simpler way to do it without having a big old jewelry box on your desk! Anybody can do it for a price of under $20! Or if you already have some of the ingredients it'll be free! So I hope you enjoy my instructable! <3

- Crayola air-dry clay
- pocket knife
- water
- small bowl
- super glue
- gold paint ( optional ) use any color you want
- white paint ( optional ) use any color you want
- green paint ( optional ) use any color you want
- light green paint ( optional ) use any color you want

It is pretty simple, you just get out a decent sized chunk of clay and roll it into a ball.

From the big ball take 1/4 of the clay and make another tiny ball. Leave the rest of the 3/4 there. Put the tiny ball aside

Take the big ball and roll it out like a snake. Take the bottom of your hand and roll it back and forth.

So I realized the snake was too long so know we are going to cut it a little bit so that it is smaller. And then smooth out the edges. So then is should be a smaller snake :D

Now get out for smaller ball that we saved aside, get out a knife and cut it in half these will be out arms.

So take one half of your tiny ball and roll it out to a snake. Do this is with the other half.

So in the photos that is what you could have so far

So take the really big stick and put it aside again. Focus on the twins and cut them at the ends just a bit.

Take on o the twins and curve it a little bit, Do it with he other twin. Measure where you want the arms to be, See it coming together?

So for this you will need a small knife I highly recommend not using a big knife or anything else, I used a pocket knife and it worked perfectly. So take your pocket knife and mark up you clay that you will be attaching. Dip your finger in water and gently put it on both sides where the marks are.

This is the tricky part. READ CLOSELY. Take your knife put it into your cactus arm somewhat toward the middle and drag the clay down to where you are attaching it smooth it out and repeat. Or if you are lazy you could let the arms day over night and glue them on with super glue bit that would waste 2 days. I had a video for this but it's isn't working.

take a bit of water and you can smooth out the clay and fill in the cracks

Get out some more clay. Start using the pinch pot method pinching the edges of the clay till you make a little bowl. Use a small bowl to put your clay in so that it keeps it's shape over night, but before I do that I want the edges to be smooth so I took a bit of water and smoothed out the edges. Then I let it sit till the water was absorbed into the clay. So now the clay was somewhat damp. I loosened up the edges so that when it was dry it didn't stick to the bowl.

Remove clay bowl from real bowl. Yay! Now you have the cactus and tiny tray thing that holds the cactus and other things. so just use some super glue put it on the bottom of the tray and on the bottom of the cactus then stick it together and let it dry I used quick dry super glue so it dried in like an hour or 30 minutes.

So I started out with a white and I just painted it so that it wasn't a mucky discussing white color and so that the paint would have something to stick to that was its texture. After the white base I painted the edge gold. Sense the bowl was a curve you could still see the white underneath, so I also painted that gold. Then I had one shade of green so I put a dark green in one side and then added the same color to a different circle pallet and mixed it with white to get a GORGEOUS light green. I painted the cactus light green then sprinkled some dark green spots onto it. I thought that wasn't enough for me so I added little gold dots. Yay modge podge time! The modge podge will add a nice glossy layer to make it feel a bit more finished and protect it from the paint chipping off. So I applied 3 layers of that and then MODLE TIME!

Here are the results I am Soooooo happy with what I have made! I didn't watch a tutorial or anything I just winged it and it was awesome! I saw the photo on Pinterest and I got an idea from that. Thanks for reading!