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Ages: 7–12
Dates: 7-11 August
Length: 5 days
Hours: 2 hours (10:00-12:00)
Theme: Animals, Monsters & Imagination in Clay
Theme: Design your clay creature
Children will use drawing and watercolor to plan their animal, monster, or fantasy sculpture.
Activities:
Introduction to clay, studio rules, watercolor planning, basic clay shapes, and a small clay warm-up charm or creature.
Goal: Create a plan for the main sculpture.
Theme: Build your animal
Children will learn handbuilding techniques and begin their main animal sculpture.
Techniques:
Pinch pots, coils, slabs, joining clay, and adding texture.
Project ideas:
Pets, birds, fish, turtles, jungle animals, sea creatures, or fantasy animals.
Goal: Build the main animal sculpture.
Theme: Make it weird, funny, or magical
Children will create monsters, dragons, aliens, or fantasy creatures, and add small worlds around them.
Activities:
Make eyes, teeth, horns, spikes, expressions, caves, houses, forests, or underwater scenes.
Goal: Finish building and adding details.
Theme: Color, pattern, and personality
Children will paint and decorate their sculptures with colors, textures, and patterns.
Activities:
Painting, adding spots, scales, fur, feathers, stripes, name plaques, charms, or mini tiles.
Goal: Complete the sculptures for display.
Theme: Try the pottery wheel
Children will have a playful introduction to the pottery wheel and celebrate their work.
Activities:
Wheel demo, each child tries the wheel, makes a mini bowl/cup/funny pot, and helps set up a mini exhibition for families.
Goal: Try the pottery wheel and share the final pieces.
Ages: 7–12
Dates: 7-11 August
Length: 5 days
Hours: 2 hours (10:00-12:00)
Theme: Animals, Monsters & Imagination in Clay
Theme: Design your clay creature
Children will use drawing and watercolor to plan their animal, monster, or fantasy sculpture.
Activities:
Introduction to clay, studio rules, watercolor planning, basic clay shapes, and a small clay warm-up charm or creature.
Goal: Create a plan for the main sculpture.
Theme: Build your animal
Children will learn handbuilding techniques and begin their main animal sculpture.
Techniques:
Pinch pots, coils, slabs, joining clay, and adding texture.
Project ideas:
Pets, birds, fish, turtles, jungle animals, sea creatures, or fantasy animals.
Goal: Build the main animal sculpture.
Theme: Make it weird, funny, or magical
Children will create monsters, dragons, aliens, or fantasy creatures, and add small worlds around them.
Activities:
Make eyes, teeth, horns, spikes, expressions, caves, houses, forests, or underwater scenes.
Goal: Finish building and adding details.
Theme: Color, pattern, and personality
Children will paint and decorate their sculptures with colors, textures, and patterns.
Activities:
Painting, adding spots, scales, fur, feathers, stripes, name plaques, charms, or mini tiles.
Goal: Complete the sculptures for display.
Theme: Try the pottery wheel
Children will have a playful introduction to the pottery wheel and celebrate their work.
Activities:
Wheel demo, each child tries the wheel, makes a mini bowl/cup/funny pot, and helps set up a mini exhibition for families.
Goal: Try the pottery wheel and share the final pieces.