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Join Luisa, an award-winning potter with years of experience teaching kids as an art aid. This means she holds a blue card. This class is about using the child's imagination while exploring all their senses (apart from taste) with the play of clay.

You can smell the earth, touch slimy and squishy clay, see the clay evolve from a slab to a creature, and hear the pop and banging of clay on a table. Parents are asked to join their child in a supervisory role. These are very small classes, four students at most.

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Classes start

13th Dec 2024

14th Dec  2024

20th Dec 2024

21st Dec 2024

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TIME 10 am to 11.30 am

Lesson One:  

Introduction to clay, kneading clay, learning how to make a pinch pot, and shaping coils. This lesson will cover the foundation for creating an animal form. We will also review the tools available and how to use them, examine objects around the house that can be used for shaping clay, and, most importantly, review safety guidelines regarding clay and the Potters Club rules. A handout will be provided for each lesson.

Lesson Two: 

Please bring your animal research. Luisa will have printouts of various animals for inspiration. We will focus on building a solid foundation for carving your creature. There will be real-life examples of how to create simple shapes and add them to your structure.

Lesson Three:

In this detailed carving session, we will explore how to create eyes using clay balls and learn how to manipulate the clay with tools to define facial features and add details to clothing.

Lesson Four:  

We will finish our creations. Each child will present their creature and explain who they made and why. In art, it's essential to ask questions; remember that while it may not look like a marble creation by Leonardo, each piece has an important story to tell. Children are natural storytellers, which is essential in keeping their imaginations alive as they age.

Luisa will collect all creations for bisque firing. Once the pieces are bisque-fired, parents will be contacted to collect them. The optional final step will be posted as a YouTube tutorial on how to add colour. This stage will be online due to the Christmas holidays. If parents and children want to participate in an additional final step, we will hold a class during the first week of January.

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 Art and engineering go hand in hand. From Leonardo to Einstein, they believed creativity and imagination were essential components of both fields.

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We will get messy, wear old clothes and bring a hand towel.