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• April 22, 2025
• Theresa Ritta-Olson

With Lynette Fast, Artist and Teacher

Explore techniques and concepts for you to take back to all your students. In just a few hours you’ll have a teaching toolbox to understand the properties of clay and ideas for exploration in the K-12 art classroom. Develop a curriculum map across grade levels, while deciding what to teach at what age. Create clay products as you emphasize the important concepts for students to understand through their experiences in your classroom. After this day of exploring, developing curriculum, and creating, you will have fresh ideas to energize your students.

Here are a few materials you can bring if you have them available. If you can share, bring a few extra.

• Item to access and collaborate on a shared digital document: phone, tablet, or laptop

• Canvas to cover your table and work your clay (2’ x 2’)

• Medium plastic bowl for water (margarine bowl)

• Small plastic container to mix slip (yogurt cup)

• 3-5 items to press texture into clay (

• Dust mask if sensitive to clay dust

• Hand Towel and washcloth to clean and dry hands and tables

• Basic wooden clay tools: potter's rib, modeling tool, ribbon tool, sponge, needle tool, loop tool, metal scraper, wire clay cutter

• Other clay tools: fork, wooden rolling pin, fettling knife, Xacto knife, toothpicks, tongue depressors