Gluesticks

Can you use hot glue to stick air dry clay before it's dry?

I know hot glue won't work for dry clay, but if it's still moist will it stay?

Public Comments

1. It probably will.
2. I think it would stick better to dried air-dry clay than to wet air-dry clay because the wet clay has water in it, and also air-dry clay will shrink while drying so may stress the glue. I think you can use a good permanent white glue for that (especially perhaps a "tacky" one) since air-dry clays are porous materials. And PVA glues (same thing) take awhile to dry too and are flexible so may take the stress of shrinking better too. Some of that would be affected by the amount, size and shape of the glue used, and how much stress the joined areas will get later. For the strongest join between two parts that won't have much contact (like attaching a head or arm to a torso, etc), you'd want to use a short "armature" between the two pieces (as well as any glue you might use) like a short length of toothpick or wire, or you'd at least want to spread the clay out at the joined areas so there's a lot of contact between the two parts.