How to make Clay Pieces Float in Liquid Shaker
I am new to making liquid shakers, and it's been a decade since I've used clay. I decided to make these little shaker fishbo's (character from Moonstone Island) to get into the craft, but I was very disappointed to find my clay fish sank instead of floating between the water and the oil. Is there a way to make the clay float? Do people not use clay at all when they make these floating pieces in liquid shakers? I have future shaker plans with custom clay guys I was going to make, but I'm scared to think I have the wrong materials for the craft!
I also wasn't sure if I should post this inquiry to this subreddit or the resin one... Any help appreciated!
EDIT:
I did a small experiment and would like to share my failures and success:
(all clay in experiment was baked craft smart polymer clay and was not glazed with anything. Tested in distilled water)
tiny balls of clay, even smaller than the fish in this post, sank in water.
balls of clay with a single square of Styrofoam- cut from old egg carton- sank.
ball of clay with a large piece of styrofoam that was folded twice to make a square of essentially four layers of foam sank, but tipped up like part of it wanted to float, but ultimately the whole sank.
My success! A ball wrapped around a hollow "cube" of stryofoam floated! I added baby oil on top of the distilled water and the clay ball/cube perfectly suspended between the oil and the water! It has been sitting in this solution for about 2 days now and there has been no change to the color of the water (it's black clay) or how well it is floating.
