DIY Stoneware Clay Handbuilding

Try out this virtual class with your partner for a unique date night, or gather the family to play with clay together. Get creative with an online clay handbuilding class and kit! No experience is required.

This hands-on, interactive video class is a great introduction to the basics of handbuilding with clay. Enjoy it in the comfort of your own home, while you enjoy a glass of wine and some snacks while you get making. Your DIY clay kit comes with clay, pottery tools and firing for two pieces of stoneware clay.

Your friendly teacher, Bruna Rodwell from Glaze Galleria, will walk you through how to use the tools in your kit and go through, step-by-step, how to make a cup and bowl using hand-building techniques.

Clay is a great tactile craft. It’s a mindful activity that helps you slow down in this hectic world. Plus, you can make things you can actually use.

Once you've made your pieces, you can drop them off at our Drummoyne pottery studio for high-temperature firings and glazing. This makes your pieces food-safe, microwave-safe, oven-safe and dishwasher-safe.

These classes are great for corporate groups and team building activities too. Request a class for your next event and craft with your colleagues!

Beginner-friendly. You don’t need any experience!

Kids can join in as long as an adult helps them along. The clay kit includes everything beginners need to get you using clay to create ceramics:

• Two kgs of Stoneware Clay
• Background information about clay (by email)
• An eight-piece pottery tool kit with a Loop Tool, Potter's Rib, Ribbon Tool, Needle Tool, Wood Modelling Tool, Sponge, Aluminium Scraper and a Wire Clay Cutter
• Firing and clear glazing of two pieces at Glaze Galleria (or you can fire it elsewhere)

You'll end up with pieces that are food safe that you can use at home.

You can pick up the Clay Kit from the Drummoyne pottery studio or have it delivered to your home, as long as the class is over five days away.

• A flat surface to work on - a timber table, large breadboard or just a tea towel.
• A bowl of water
• A small dish (to make some slip)
• An old flathead paintbrush
• A microfibre cloth
• A "Lazy Susan" - helpful but not essential