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Making a Vase Rationale: Provides experience in creating another form of art with clay Materials: Clay, board, cloth, rolling pin, milk carton or similar, plastic cling wrap. blunt knife Setting: Students have materials. This may have been formed into a rough ball shape (approx half the size of a tennis ball, by the instructor Sequence: |
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 Using this mold technique, there are a great variety of vase type containers that can be made. Try tin cans, milk cartons and PVC piping.
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1. Flatten clay with open hand to
approximately finger thickness 2. Roll clay with rolling pin. The clay needs to be large enough to fold around the carton. It is large enough if the carton cal roll over it four times. 3. Wrap the cling wrap around the carton, including the base. 4. Place the carton on the edge of the clay and rol, pressing and smoothing the clay over the carton on each fold. 5. When the clay is wrapped around the carton, smooth over the edge of the clay to join. 6. Stand the clay and the carton upright place on another flattened slab of clay for the base. 7. Cut around the base, cutting approximately 1 centimetre (half an inch) out from the bottom of the vase. 8. Press the clay from the base into the bottom of the vase. Water can be rubbed in to smooth the joins. 9. Trim off any additional clay from around the base. 10. Remove the carton from the vase after 24 hours. Leave to dry for a further 10 days. Glaze and fire. |
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