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How to Make a Chinese fortune cookie from polymer clay

Hand holding a small clay model with a metallic detail.

Fortune cookies are quite ephemeral things. You break 'em open after a nice meal of Americanized orange chicken and broccoli and beef, start overanalyzing your fortune that "your relationship will take an unexpected turn," and then chomp down on the delicious wafer as you contemplate if he really is The One.

Keep these eternally amusing fortune cookies intact just because they're so darn cute by making yourself a polymer clay version. Watch this tutorial for a step-by-step guide to creating your own fortune...cookie, that is.

Materials: Sculpey Premo (colors: ecru & white).

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