DIY Clay Tools

Posted on 08. Sep, 2011 by in All Posts, Cool+Creative, Techniques, Tools and Miscellaneous

Tight budgets and larger class sizes don’t mean clay has to be eliminated from the curriculum. Help ease your budget by repurposing items already in your classroom. Old tools will get a second lease on life and precious budget dollars can be spent on other needed supplies. Create a few of the DIY clay tools located below to expand your ceramic curriculum and give every student in your class the tools for success.

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Below are clay project ideas collected in Pinterest. Just click on the image to take a closer look.

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5 Responses to “DIY Clay Tools”

  1. Nancy Walkup 10 September 2011 at 8:57 pm #

    Popsicle sticks and old toothbrushes are also helpful!

  2. Rina 18 January 2012 at 3:03 pm #

    Amazing post! I’ll be pinning all your photos. I just discovered your blog today via the mini Matisse blog and I will be back.

    Rina (new art blog k6art.com)

  3. Rina 31 January 2012 at 11:13 pm #

    Hello ladies

    My wire clay cutter broke in the middle of class today. I pulled up my Pinterest with your photos and made a clay cutter on the spot!

    Then I wrote it up on my blog (k6art.com) today and linked back to this post.

    Thanks again

    Rina

  4. Hillary Andrlik + Theresa McGee 3 February 2012 at 8:45 pm #

    Thanks Rina,
    So glad that some of the DYI clay tools worked for you! The whole post was inspired by a former student teacher who got her first teaching position at a school that had no clay tools, but wanted her to teach ceramics. Yikes! So we went through all my homemade tools and built ones I had used in the past and photographed it all.