Making Houses, Pet Bowls and Dishes
What's Involved
You can make a wide variety of masterpieces with your hands and a slab of clay (and a few other tools!)
A tealight house
Our house tealight holders are very popular - use a standard form, or be inspired to recreate your own home!
A Pet Bowl
Every Bertie, Herbie or Snuffles deserves their own personalised food bowl! You can even add slow feeder details to the centre if you would like.
A Tapas Dish
You can make dishes to feed yourself - always useful, and perfect to impress your friends and family with a unique personal tapas dish!
A jug or mug
A creative jug is so useful for gravy, custard, or to show off a beautiful bunch of flowers,
You will be using the fundamental skill of slab building, joining and adding texture and surface interest. The end result is your choice, but we have some ideas to inspire you!
The clay is stoneware; durable and microwave and diswasher safe.
When?
Slab building workshops run on selected Friday and Saturday mornings.
The session is 2.5 hours, from 10-12.30. This is quite a short time, so don't be too ambitious with what you would like to make!
Making houses, pet bowls and dishes is suitable for kids (from age 10 and up), accompanied by a responsible adult.
Useful Info
You will find that the hours soon go, aided by a nice cuppa and relaxing music in the background.
You can make whatever houses or dishes you are interested in. Your piece will be wet at the end of the session. It needs to be left to dry, and can then be either glazed in one of our studio glazes, or you can come back to decorate in your own style later.
We have a large work table area with space for up to six people. So that will be the maximum building at any time.
Please wear comfy old clothes. Hand building is not messy, but you will get clay dust on your hands.
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