Crafting Our Own Pottery

Brina learning how to work the pottery wheel!

One of the gifts Karlie recently got for Brina was a do-it-yourself pottery wheel.  Since we like doing “crafty” things we decided it was time to try it out and see what we could create.  Since it was Brina’s pottery wheel she went first, but she was kind enough to let all of do a piece as well (even Mom and Dad).  While our creations are not anything fancy or perfect we had a blast creating neat items on the wheel.  Maybe with a little more practice we’ll be doing master pieces!!!

Karlie trying it out too!

Having fun shaping the item.

Focusing on making her pottery piece

These are the pieces we ended up making with Brina’s pottery wheel.  Waiting for the pieces to dry so we can do the next step….painting!  It was a lot of fun!  Thanks for sharing Brina!

We used the Kids Craft Pottery Wheel Kit which can be picked up at WalMart or Amazon (WalMart’s had a much better price on this item).  We did have to mix in some water to get the clay soft enough, but once we got going the clay and the pottery wheel worked great!  The clay was air dry so we didn’t have to worry about baking it.  You can get more air dry clay at Hobby Lobby too if they want to do more projects.