Bring it Back to Basics With This Week's Clay-Themed Vine Challenge

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By Annie Park2014-04-08 03:38:44 UTC

Let's go back to the good ol' days of crafting as kids. For this week's Mashable Vine Challenge, use clay as your main material.

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Claymation is one of the many forms of stop-motion animation. A malleable substance like clay can allow for creative building and sculpting. You can use basic modeling clay, Play-Doh, Silly Putty, Crayola's Model Magic or any other similar material. Just grab a chunk and create a character, hand-build pottery, or play around in 2D or 3D.

For our Vine video, we chose to animate a blob of clay that "grew" out of a table, and demonstrated a few motions — rolling, bouncing and stretching — in our animation.

Share your creation by Friday, April 11 at 9 a.m. ET, using the hashtag #ClayMash, for a chance to be featured in a follow-up post.

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Topics: crafts, Mashable Vine Challenge, Social Media, stop-motion animation, Vine