Every size and shade we carry, with prices re-checked against the live listing
Cutedeer · shelf
One pound of a single shade, so a project gets the exact color it asked for.
Everything on this shelf
A single color, about a pound of it, sealed so it stays soft on the shelf. This is the shelf to reach for when a project has already decided what it needs: brown for tree trunks, green for leaves, black for eyes and hooves.
Warm mid-brown, the shade that makes tree trunks, bears and gingerbread read as themselves.
A true flat black for eyes, hooves, wheels and the outlines that make a shape readable.
Leaf green, the shade every jungle, dinosaur and garden scene eats through first.
A soft violet purple, the shade that makes flowers, dragons and night skies feel deliberate.
A warm pumpkin orange that reads as autumn, fire and fruit without any mixing.
A clean postbox red for apples, hearts, mushrooms and anything that needs to be seen.
A gentle blossom pink, requested by name more often than any other shade we stock.
Every bag on this shelf is Cutedeer air dry clay in a single specific shade, about a pound of it, sealed so that it stays soft until the day somebody opens it.
A multi-color kit is a wonderful way to start and a poor way to continue. The shade a child reaches for most runs out first, and what remains in the box is a set of colors nobody chose.
Buying by the shade answers that. It also changes how a session runs: when the material is one color, the only choice in front of a child is shape, and shape is the harder and more interesting skill. Mixing comes later, and it comes better when there is enough of each color to mix with.
That makes the choice on this page a short one. Pick the color rather than the format, and let the specific project a child has in mind decide the rest.
We keep seven shades here because those are the seven we can get consistently. If a shade is on this page it is in stock, and the price on the card was checked against the live listing rather than carried over from the last time we looked.
It is a foam modeling clay, which means light, soft and a little squishy rather than dense and cold like pottery clay. A child of four or five can work it without help, which is most of the reason we stock it.
It does not crumble, and it does not leave the gray film on fingers that cheap modeling compound tends to leave. That makes it an accessible first material for a child who has only ever used reusable dough.
It is air dry clay in the strict sense: no oven, no kiln, no baking at any stage. It uses nothing but open air to set, so a thin shape left on a windowsill is clear of the tacky stage by the next morning.
A solid fist-sized lump wants a day or two and does better hollowed out, because the outside dries and shrinks before the middle has started to move.
Dried, it remains light and slightly yielding, closer to a foam ball than to a tile. That is a real advantage for anything a child will carry around and a real limit for anything that has to bear weight. We say so on every card where it matters.
Brown is the color that does the unglamorous work and runs out first: trunks, branches, bread, fur, soil. Green is the second, because leaves are endless. Black earns its bag on eyes, hooves, wheels and outlines, where a tiny amount reads as detail.
Red, orange, pink and purple get chosen for their own sake, which is a perfectly good reason. One bag follows another as a child's interests change, and a single shade is a cheap way to follow an interest that may not last the season.
If a project is still undecided, a tub of white and a set of acrylics covers more ground than any single color, and we keep that on the next shelf over.
Collections grow here one bag at a time, which suits the way the activity actually works. A family buys brown for a tree, then green for the leaves, then black for the eyes, and the collection is three bags deep before anybody planned it.
Each bag serves one job well. If you are considering a larger build, two bags of the same shade beat four different ones, because running out halfway up ends the activity faster than boredom ever does.
There is no instruction booklet on this shelf. A single shade needs none, and our field notes cover the technique in more depth than a leaflet could, because they are written out of experience with the material rather than out of a specification.
If you are considering a first purchase and a child's interests are still unclear, start with a kit on the next shelf and come back here when one specific shade runs short. That is the order most families use, and the collections that follow are the proof of it.
Before you decide
About 1.1 lb of a single shade, sealed so it stays soft until you open it. In practice that is a generous amount for a child-sized project: a pound of brown is more tree trunk than most builds will ever need, and it keeps well once opened.
Yes, and they mix cleanly because the material is soft all the way through. Two shades kneaded together give a true blend rather than a marbled mess, though the result is permanent, so mix small amounts until you have the shade you want.
No. The color runs through the clay and stays put as it dries, which is the appeal of buying by the shade. Paint is for the white tub, or for adding detail on top of a colored piece once it is firm.
A thin or flat shape is firm overnight. Something solid and fist-sized wants a day or two, and dries more evenly if you hollow out the thick part first.
Open the listing for the whole clay by the color shelf and the sizes beside it.
