Kindergarten bowls

Here is a two day lesson. The first day you demonstrate how one uses fingers to stretch a bowl from a sphere. I keep the bowls moist in a container until the second and last class, in which I then leave bowls out to dry to get them ready for the kiln. The second day kids use all sorts of 'tools' to create decorations on the inside, sides and lip of their bowls. Tools range from tradition clay tools all the way to marker tops and pencils.