Kids Clay Camp

Service Description

Students will learn the basics of wheel throwing; wedging, centering, pulling the clay up, and trimming to create functional pieces. The pieces will then be decorated with a variety of options: underglazes, colored slips, carving and sgraffito. For ages 7-14 Camps are capped at 7 students to insure individual instruction and wheel access for all. *Pieces will be bisque fired by staff, dipped in a transparent glaze and fired once more. The staff will notify you went the pieces are ready for pick up (about 2 weeks)

Classes run for 5 days from 9:00 am until noon

Check out what your child will be working on each day of camp!

DAY 1

Intro to Wheel Throwing

Learn how to center and create bowls and cylinders.

DAY 2

Continuing Wheel Throwing

Throw cylinders to create a one-of-a-kind mug.

DAY 3

Learn Hand-Building Techniques

Pull handles, build mugs, and embellish thrown pieces.

DAY 4

Hand-building & Scuplting

Create sculptures and learn how to work with slabs and coils

DAY 5

Learn Sgraffito

Using colored slip and carving designs to decorate and glaze pieces.

Each camp will have a max of 7 participants per class to ensure there is plenty of 1 on 1 instruction as our instructor Olivia takes them through wheel throwing and hand-building projects throughout the week.

Olivia, a local high school art teacher, is excited to join us as an instructor at Wildwood Green Arts this summer. She brings great energy and a creative style when working with clay.