Hand-building Activities
for
Saturday Morning Classes and CLAY PARTY groups

FOR CLAY PARTY participants:
 CLAY PARTY activities are for the group to decide, but best use of the teacher's time is to focus on one idea at a time, unless your group knows what they want to do and can do it without the help of the teacher.

Tea Party! 
Each participant will make a teapot and a set of small cups, using slabs and pinch construction. 

Empty Bowls
Each participant will create a set of bowls using slab techniques. Emphasis will be on creating a design that will carry through on all of the items in the set. Participants will have the option of donating a bowl to the Empty Bowls project.

Easter Baskets
Each participant will make a clay basket with a handle and use two different techniques to decorate the basket--carving into the clay and/or adding clay designs on top of the basket's surface.

Animal Diorama
​Each participant will create an animal sculpture, either real or imaginary, using a variety of techniques.  Finished pieces will be glazed with realistic and/or bright colors.

Mugs
Each participant will create a set of mugs using slab techniques. Emphasis will be on creating a design that will carry through on all of the items in the set. 

Plates
Each participant will create a set of plates using slab techniques. Emphasis will be on creating a design that will carry through on all of the items in the set.

​Tiles
Each participant will make a set of tiles that will be decorated using a variety of carving and/or embossing techniques.  Tiles need to dry very slowly to insure that they do not crack, so finished pieces will not be fired for 3-4 weeks after the class. 

Pet Dish
Each participant will make a water and/or food dish for their pet, using hard and/or soft slab techniques.

​Butter Dish 
​This class is for advanced students, ages 9 and up.
Each participant will make a lidded butter dish using hard and/or soft slab techniques. . 

Bread Pan 
​This class is for advanced students, ages 9 and up.
Each participant will make a bread pan using hard and/or soft slab techniques. There will be a sampling available of bread made in a call bread pan as well as recipes for making your own bread.

Magic Boxes
​This class is for advanced students, ages 9 and up.
​Each participant will make at least 2 small lidded boxes using hard and/or soft slab techniques. . 

​​Whistles 
​This class is for advanced students, ages 9 and up.
Each participant will make a whistle, hopefully one that really works! If time permits, we will add holes and create a simple scale.