Wobbling Chicken Craft: Filling Eggshell With iClay

Video Transcript

"Once our marble is placed inside and is balanced, we're going to fill the eggshell up with the I-Clay and we're going to do this so that the marble will stay in place and also it will act as the base for the chicken that we're going to create, from the I-Clay. This will give us the ability, if we want to, chip away the eggshell after the project is done. We'll see that the eggshell was like a mold, the I-Clay will hold its shape and we can finish the project off that way as well. So, we're filling up the bottom half of the eggshell, we try and fill in the entire eggshell so there are no spaces, always being aware that the marble is still inside. We can still move the marble around, a little bit, as we're filling in, if we see that it's not being balanced as we're pressing the I-Clay in, we can still be pushing against the marble, so to speak, if it is not sitting straight up. We want to fill the eggshell but not all the way to the top, we should leave a little bit of space around the top of the eggshell and this is only so that the chick that we're going to create, will not be actually sitting on top of the egg but will look like it's coming out from within the egg. As we pat the I-Clay down, we should continuously test it to make sure that it's being balanced. The main goal is to fill in the spaces and to try and cover the marble entirely. We see that once we've filled it in, with a little bit of pressing against the marble, we've found its center again. Now the eggshell is standing upright so we've now completed the step of filling in the eggshell with the I-Clay."