While watching a documentary on Ancient Greece the kids became enthralled with the pottery and asked "Can we do that?" As it just so happens I had a 5lb block of self hardening clay that I ordered recently with a bunch of other art supplies. It was meant for something else but heck… we can make Greek Pottery today and I will just have to order more for later.

They were surprised that it was much harder that it looked. Clay is a very different creature than play-dough or salt dough. BTW – it took about 48 hours to dry enough to paint. We used both orange and black paint because the kids wanted theirs to look like the greek pottery in the show which was made with a red clay.

Pixie, who loves play-dough, enjoyed the different texture.

Fairy painted a picture of Athena on her cup.

Bug really wanted his to look like a vase and spent a lot of time shaping his.