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Club Mud

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Every Tuesday, my kids go to a pottery class that the local community center hosts. It’s a great way for them to learn a skill and have some fun at the same time.

So far, they’ve made a bell, a plate, a cup, and a glazed picture apiece. Yesterday, they were making turtles.

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The first step is to slam the clay against the table a few times to get rid of the air bubbles before you start working it.

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Then she (the instructor) had the kids take a piece of their clay and roll it into a snake…

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… and then coil the snake into a bowl shape.

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At this point, hubby and I left the boys in the capable hands of the pottery teacher. But when we came back, we got to see their sculpted turtles.

Seahawk’s:

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Munchkin’s (he apparently was having difficulty, so his turtle is in its shell; he’s nothing if not creative!):

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The teacher will have them fired, glazed, and ready to bring home in a week or two.

Homeschool: Hand Art Illusion

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When I saw this idea, I knew it was the art project for us. Easy, creative, and used only supplies we already had on hand (namely plain paper and colored pencils). While the original used only circles for the concentric shapes, I let the kids use any shape they wanted.

Seahawk used rectangles:

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Munchkin used hearts:

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And I used circles and Small Fry’s hand:

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If you think it’s easy outlining an 8-month-old’s hands, think again, lol. But it wasn’t the hardest thing in the world, either.

The black outlines is one way we deviated from the original post on this art project, but I found ours were too muddy to tell what they were without them. So if you try this with your kids, feel free to leave them off if you want :).

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