Panda vase

• Cut the bamboo stem in 4 and place on the greaseproof paper crossing each other.

Panda's body of the porcelain vase 

• Roll some of your white cold porcelain into a ball first of all and then lengthen it to make a drop shape. 

• Put some glue on the underneath of the body and place it on the bamboo stems.

• Apply some blush on the stomach.

• Make a hole for the navel and push the toothpick through the neck to place the head on later.

• Roll out a ball of black cold porcelain and cut it in half to make the thighs.

• Make the legs from a drop-like shape and attach them to each side of the body.

• Fashion 2 smaller drop shapes for the feet and attach them to the end of the legs.

• Mark on the claws.

• Roll out a long thin sausage-like shape of pink cold porcelain and cut 8 pieces of equal size.

• Roll the pieces into 8 little balls and stick them on the sole of the feet.

• Make 2 arms out of carrot shapes of black cold porcelain.

• Fix them on top of the body, wrap them around the glass tube and mark the claws on them as well.

• Lean the tube against a heavy object so that it doesn't topple over and leave the model to dry for at least a day.

Make the panda's head of the porcelain vase

• After leaving the body to dry for 1 day, roll out a ball of white cold porcelain for the head and place it on the toothpick, fixing it on the body with some glue.

• Roll out 2 small black balls and attach them to the front of the head.

• Push down on the balls to flatten them.

• Hollow out the eyes.

• Place 2 googly eyes in the holes, or, if you wish, leave the lodel to dry and paint them yourself.

• Apply some blush to the cheeks.

• Make 2 balls for the ears and attach them to the head. 

• Hollow out the ears with the modelling tool.

Finishing touches to the porcelain vase

• After a few days, when the model is dry, tie a bit of ribbon or raffia around the neck.

• Fill the tube with water and place a shoot of fresh bamboo in it.