Stamped Ceramic Bowls

Directions:

 

Kids smushed clay into Styrofoam bowls.

 

Kids stamped clay with rubber stamps.  (I had a request for a horse stamp.  I did not have one.  So heads up for all you teachers with horse lovers.  Get a horse stamp!)

We let the bowls sit for a week.

 



 

We fired the bowls.

 

Kids glazed fired bowls.

(Notice how I covered JJ's bottom with construction paper?  I covered all the bowls with construction paper because first graders would have glazed the bottom.  If I had a stilt warehouse close to the school campus, I would let the kids glaze the bottom.) 

 

 

Then, we Fired it UP, one last time.  When I fire up the kiln, I always yell "Fire it Up" and think of this song by Modest Mouse:

 

 

Finished product. 

Easy beginning clay project for first graders.

 

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