Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery
A Chicago potter’s somewhat slanted view of clay & play
Categories: summer camp

After two days of playing with clay, today we moved over to the Metals Department for the kids to start making their forks, knives & spoons! And my metals co-teachers are much more in their element now! Pam did a great job of teaching the kids how to work safely with the tools to form their thematic cutlery pieces.

Draw them out, cut them out, file, sand, texture, etc… a lot of banging & pounding!!!

While in the Metals Department, we also like to have a “contest” to see who breaks the fewest saw blades. We find that a little friendly competition makes them think a little bit more as they’ve working. Break the fewest saw blades and win the Metals Prize made by Pam!!!

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