No Fire Clay (Sunclay)

• Soft, pliable air-dry clay, no kiln required
• Made from natural, non-toxic materials for safe use
• Works like traditional clay, easily shaped with water and tools
• Surfaces must be scored and joined with slip for strong bonds
• Takes 7–10 days to fully dry at room temperature
• Can be painted with Chromacryl or Vipond once dry
• Packaged in an airtight plastic bucket to maintain freshness
• Ideal for schools, creative workshops, and ceramic-style projects
• Smooth consistency makes it easy to handle and shape

Ideal for schools without a kiln, No Fire Clay allows students to create long-lasting sculptures, textured reliefs, and detailed models. Teachers can use traditional clay first to introduce sculpting techniques before using No Fire Clay for final projects. Its smooth, easy-to-handle consistency makes it perfect for freehand modelling, coil building, and slab work, with minimal effort required for joining pieces. A great option for classroom art, creative workshops, and detailed ceramic-style projects without the need for firing.

No Fire clay can be used in a variety of ways: It can be rolled, squeezed, twisted, coiled, stretched, scratched, pinched, moulded, stamped, scored, cut, scraped and pressed to make a wide variety of projects.



Break off the required amount from the block and begin your project.



Roll it into a slab and cut shapes from it. By rolling the No Fire clay onto a textured surface such as heavy netting or hessian, your work will have an interesting surface detail on which to work. Use a variety of tools to make patterns and marks in your shape. Use a skewer or satay stick to make a hole through the clay and the shapes can be hung when painted.



Roll thin coils from the No Fire clay and use them to build up a shape. To make a bowl, cut a circle or similar from a rolled out slab of No Fire clay and press the coils around the outside edge of the shape, building up the sides of your pot as you go. Use a flat tool to smooth over the coils on the inside of the shape.



Once you have completed building up the shape, more texture and pattern can be added by making shapes and attaching them to the pot or by using tools to scratch or mark the No Fire clay with patterns.



No Fire clay can be moulded into a smooth ball in your hands. To make a pinch pot, the ball should be small enough to fit into one hand comfortably. Use one hand to hold the ball and press your thumb into its centre. Begin to hollow out the ball by gently pinching the clay and rotating the ball as you go. Ensure that the walls are smooth and uniform in thickness. The opening of the pot can be squeezed inwards to make it smaller, or pinched outwards to make it larger. A lid can be made in a similar fashion from a smaller ball of No Fire clay.



No Fire clay can be hand built to make a range of models such as dragons, dinosaurs, cats, birds etc. Simply make the basic shapes of the animal and join them together, adding texture and detail with a variety of tools.



No Fire clay is easily painted when dry.



Air Drying Clay: Joining Techniques



Option 1: Score each surface of the pieces to be joined together. Press firmly together.











Option 2: Smooth together surfaces that are to be joined, this can also be done by adding a coil.