Cute and Easy Sunflower Tutorial Using Foam Clay

Super cute Mother's Day craft project for kids and adults. It's simple and quick and doesn't need many materials. Foam clay is my favorite clay to work with because it is so easy to mold and satisfying to stretch and knead. The sunflower can be used in other crafts like wreaths or fake flower arrangements.

• Foam Clay: Yellow, Green, Brown, pink (I dye my clay with food gel colors to get any shade)
• soft pastels
• Wooden stick
• Safety eyes
• Pointy tool
• Scraper
• Green acrylic paint

Good to have but not necessary:

• Scale
• Mat
• Tools

Start by rolling yellow clay into a log and cutting even pieces for the petals. If you want to follow the exact measurements in grams/inches, you can find them here, 

You will need 10 pieces if you use the measurement guide.

Roll them into balls and then shape them into teardrops. Take your pointy tool and make an indentation in the middle of the petal leaf.

Next, shape the brown clay into a flat ball. With your scraper or any other flat tool start making parallel cuts into the surface. Then repeat at a 90-degree angle creating a crisscross pattern with lots of squares.

With the pointy tool poke a hole in every square to create that realistic look of the sunflower middle

Then finish with some brown, soft pastels assembling the flower. Use glue to attach each petal and then shade with some orange, soft pastel, focusing more on the inner side of the petals.

Paint the wooden stick green using dark green acrylic paint.

Shape a teardrop out of green clay for the leaf. With a scraper or other flat tool create the veins of the leaf. 

Next, shape 12 smaller petals out of yellow clay the same way as in step 1 and attach them on top of the large petals as shown in the picture.

Shade them with some orange soft pastels to get more depth. 

Place the eyes a little below the middle line of the flower, making sure to leave enough space for the tiny cheeks. Flatten 2 tiny balls out of pink clay and add them below the eyes. 

Roll out a super thin string to make the mouth and eyebrows. Use the pointy tool to help place it on the flower to create an adorable face.

Add some glue to the end of the green wood stick (stem) and poke it into the flower. Then attach the leaf to the stem. Let her dry for a couple of days.