Bicycle Clay

This bicycle clay may not suitable for kids below 10 years old because I am using wire and cutter. 

Tools & Materials:

• Air dry clay (check out my page about "what clay to buy" to see 3 different type of air dry clay and also oven baked clay). I used red and black soft clay for my bicycle.
• Chain wire (you may find it at the landscape area at your local DIY store)
• Floral tape
• Black thread
• Wire cutter
• Glue

Steps to make bicycle clay:

• Cut the wire to about 5 - 6 centimeter. Make 8 equal length.
• Take the two wires and make a cross. Tie them together with black thread. Make two crosses.
• Join the two crosses with black thread again. Please see the second picture  for your reference. 

• Roll black clay to 2 small ball shapes, flatten it lightly and paste it on the middle of the wire. It will cover the black thread on both sides.
• Wrap the perimeter of the wire with your thread to get the estimated length of the wheel. 
• Roll your black clay to a spaghetti shape with diameter about 0.5 - 1 centimeter. 

• You have the wheel now. Make another one in the same way.
• Let it dry in room temperature.
• Next, roll the red color clay (or other color if you like) to a spaghetti shape and flatten it to about 2 -3 millimeter thick.
• Cut this to about 1/3 of the wheel length and paste it on to it  with glue. 
• Do this for the other wheel too.

• Let's make the handle bar and the handle post that looks like a fork.
• Cut your wire and shape it like the above.
• Join the two wire shapes with floral tape.
• Cover the wire with red clay.

• Paste both ends of the headset fork to the center of the front wheel with glue.
• You'll need another fork shape for the back wheel, seat post and  the middle bar.  
• Cut the wire and bend it to form the shape like the one in the picture and then cover the wire with clay again.
• Joint both ends of the fork to the center of the back wheel and the other end to the front wheel.
• For the seat, roll your black clay to a ball shape and then triangle shape and insert this to the seat post.
• You can add the crank & pedal now and also top bar connecting the front wheel to the seat post to stiffen your bicycle clay.
• Lastly, I add black clay to cover the handle. 

The bicycle figurine is ready now. If you make a bike following this tutorial we want to see your work. Please share your picture using the submission form below or post it to our Facebook page.

Have fun....

Update:

We've just uploaded our mini bicycle video tutorial. You'll see us making the bike without wire here.

Other ride-on clay ideas:

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