Kiln Peek at 2nd Grade Coil Pots

These are always beautiful! We do a diamond clear glaze on "clay lady clay" from MidSouth Ceramics then the kids pick out some glass beads (dollar tree!) to lay in the bottom of the coil pot. The kiln melts the glass and it looks like water. It's an awesome technique! Beware though, if the kiln doesn't get a complete "fire" the glass won't completely melt and it will result in little dangerous glass bubbles! 

Here's the rest of the photogs of the coil pots/Mother's Day Gifts....

1st Grade Clay-liens!

This year I got smart about clay and narrowed it down to "clay week", which naturally turned into clay month factoring in 2 days of hand-building then one day of glazing...and still have yet to hit 4th grade's clay project...eek. Anyways, the clay aliens...or clay-liens as I have so dubbed them always are a bit hit. The kids love clay, obviously, but they really get to be "free" when creating these creatures. Here you can see them after the glazing process...and honestly I'm a little disappointed with the glazes this year. They turned out super light...oh well. They're still awesome. 

This was our little clay-lien miracle/beautiful oops...a clay-lien somehow attached itself to a 2nd grader's coil pot and fused together in the kiln. Together they look like A.the clay-lien threw up into the coil pot or B. the clay-lien has a hilariously huge underbite. I couldn't let either kid take this so it will live with me.