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Using one bottle cap and some oven bake modeling clay you can make a really realistic looking Fossil model. Maybe it's a dinosaur fossil or maybe it's a dragon fossil, who knows. All I know that until you start making them these things were amongst the rarest things in the world.
if you do it right you also get to do a little bit of fossil hunting as you chip away at the various layers.
A really quick fun little project to do just before the end of the holidays.
What you will need:
if you do it right you also get to do a little bit of fossil hunting as you chip away at the various layers.
A really quick fun little project to do just before the end of the holidays.
What you will need:
- one round ended personal care bottle or aerosol cap
- some oven bake modeling clay (Sculpy or Fimo) in any colour
- Some tile grout or plaster or other mix-up paste filler that sets
- scissors, marker, different coloured paints (spray)
- glue gun (not essential but helps it go along nice and quickly)
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Signing UpStep 1Mark and then cut up the bottle cap lid
Loads of personal care products have soft plastic (usually poly-propylene) caps with rounded ends. For this project you need at least one. Although if you want to make a whole fossilised nest, then you will need more.
First mark the cap by drawing a line that divides it in half vertically over the top, then mark two smaller divisions, one for each half. Try and make sure that these are the same size as each other, although you will be able to trim to match later.
If you have a nice soft reasonably thin walled cap, then you should be able to cut it out using strong scissors. If it is thicker and tougher you may need to use a fret saw. Don't use a craft knife, the cap is very hard to hold (slippery and squashy and a knife is not the right thing to use to cut it).
First mark the cap by drawing a line that divides it in half vertically over the top, then mark two smaller divisions, one for each half. Try and make sure that these are the same size as each other, although you will be able to trim to match later.
If you have a nice soft reasonably thin walled cap, then you should be able to cut it out using strong scissors. If it is thicker and tougher you may need to use a fret saw. Don't use a craft knife, the cap is very hard to hold (slippery and squashy and a knife is not the right thing to use to cut it).
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I decided upon a dinosaur baby in a jar...
Thanks for posting this instructable.