Crafts: Ceramics
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Painting And Drawing On Hand Built Slab Pottery
Note: This piece is actually bright red, not terra cotta as it is showing up on my blog for some unknown reason! My twelve year old son and I are spending one evening a week together at a local pottery studio, and having a wonderful time! There is no wheel, so we are forced to…
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Ceramic Wall Pocket Craft For Kids
My 12 year old son and I are getting in some very precious “mommy and me” time by spending an evening once a week at a local ceramics studio, and i have lots of fun things to share! Not to mention a big realization that my little stint with ceramics about four years ago that…
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Passover Craft For Kids: A Clay Seder Plate
A clay Passover seder plate is a sweet little craft that you can make with air drying clay, polymer clay or classic clay that requires kiln firing. Given that Passover is just six days away, I’d go for the polymer clay idea which is the quickest and won’t require any firing. Plus then kids can…
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Fun With Air Drying Clay
Air drying clay is a wonderful way to experiment with clay, without having to worry about firing or baking. We haven’t taken our project to the next step yet, namely painting them, but I thought I’d share this with you anyway, since summer is a great time to sit outdoors and sculpt something! My daughter…
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Ceramic Plaques Crafted By Kids (For The Succah?)
I just realized that these sweet ceramic plaques created by my seven and eight year old sons will be perfect decorations for the Succah! We try to hang things in our Succah to honor great sages and important figures in Jewish history, so these creations which depict the burial site of Rachel Imeinu are really…
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Ceramic Birdhouses
Ever seen such sweet little bird houses? I can honestly say that I squeeled in delight when my seven and eight year old son’s brought home these creations from their after school ceramics class a few months ago! I love those red roofs and the detailing is just so sweet. We’ll be hanging on to…
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A Clay Bunting Banner For Your Succah!
How about making a bunting banner from clay? I actually made these from clay fired in a kiln, but you can certainly do the same thing with polymer clay, air drying clay or the kind of clay that you can bake in your oven. Or how about baker’s clay made from flour and water? And…
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Hand Built Ceramic Cups
Here’s one of my latest handbuilt ceramic projects that I made at my ceramics class just down the street. Though I would at some point love to learn how to use the wheel, for the moment I’m quite content exploring the world of hand building. These cups were made using the slab technique, and the…
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Textured Rolling Pin DIY
Here’s a simple DIY for a textured rolling pin that you can use in so many ways: to texture clay of all kinds, for play dough and salt dough and maybe even as a printing tool for painting some wrapping paper, though don’t take my word for it, haven’t tried it! I made this one…
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Hand Built Ceramic Platter And Cups
I have to say, I really can’t believe that this ceramic platter and cups were made by me! For as long as I can remember I’ve wanted to learn how to make things with clay, and at long last the opportunity arose just down the street, so I jumped at it. So my friends,…