We wrapped up our kids clay class this past week so I thought I’d show our final project, magic wands:
I got a bucket of sea glass and had each student to pick out a piece they liked and thought was special. We then started the clay building by making a tapered coil and fitting the glass stone in the end. From there they decorated them as they wished, and I went round making sure the stones could be taken out easily when they were done. This part is important as the sea glass wouldn’t survive a kiln firing.
As each student finished, we extracted the glass, widening the impression it had made to allow for the clay contracting as it dries. I then took each glass piece and used some masking tape to label them with the student’s name and set them all aside until the wands were done.
After thier first firing, most of the kids glazed them, some kids decided to leave them bisque. When the wands were completed, I matched all the wands to their stones and hot glued them in place. Most of them fit easily, except where the occasional bit of glaze got into the spot and made the hole smaller, but a bit of work with the dremel tool cleared them out.
And there you go, ready-made wands! I defy you to pick one up and not think about what kind of animal your Petronus is!
