Earn your Ceramics Badge at Kids 'N' Clay!
Bring your troop to Kids 'N' Clay and earn your Ceramics and Clay badge while having fun learning the craft of ceramics. Badge workshops are designed to fulfill badge requirements at all levels - Brownies, Junior Girl Scouts, Bear Cub Scouts and Webelos.
- Cost: $18.00 per child
- Price includes all materials and firing. All work is bisque fired; clear glazed and fired one last time to complete the process. Work is ready two weeks after the scheduled program date. Each child ends up taking home two projects that they created. A Try-it workshop is 1.5 hours long.
- For our Try-it workshop our guest receives 2 balls of clay to work with. Starting at the hand building table they receive instruction on how to use the three main hand building techniques, pinch pots, coil pots and slab construction. Then with their other ball of clay it's on to the potter's wheel where they learn how to make a bowl. When both creations or finished, they add some color by using our special under glaze that allows you to paint on wet clay.
- Cost: $23.00 per child
- Price includes all materials and firing. All work is bisque fired; clear glazed and fired one last time to complete the process. Work is ready two weeks after the scheduled program date. Each child will end up taking home 4 projects that they created. A Badge workshop is two hours long.
TRY IT WORKSHOP: This is a great workshop for the experience of using the potter's wheel and working with clay in a fun and creative environment.
BADGE WORKSHOP: This workshop covers 6 out of the 10 requirements listed in the scouting handbook.
- Each guest receives 4 projects from our badge program.
- 1. A Pinch or coil pot
- 2. A thrown bowl that they create on the potter's wheel
- 3. A tile that they make themselves using texture, color and stamps
- 4. And a painted bisque tile
- In addition we review:
- Clay: What is it? Proper ways to keep clay. Why we wedge. The different stages of Clay, green ware, leather hard, bone dry, bisque
- Kilns: How we use them at Kids 'N' Clay
PLAN YOUR VISIT TO KIDS 'N' CLAY:
- Book at least 48 hours in advance
- Call for availability
- Guarantee at least 10 paying scouts. Maximum 20 scouts
- You may combine with another troop at the same scout level.