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Does Your Child Love to Make a Mess?
Let your child explore clay on the potter's wheel or hand-building in our fun, challenging and messy pottery classes!
The Ankeny Art Center’s well-established clay department offers exciting classes for children. Elementary school students in 5-8th Grade can learn how to use the pottery wheel with instruction from our experienced teachers. Younger children in K-4th Grade can get their hands dirty by pushing, pinching, rolling, squishing and all-out simply playing with the clay. Both classes are 4 weeks.
K-4th Grade Pottery Hand-Building
Saturdays, 9am-10am, $50 (members $40)
There is no shortage to the exciting projects that your child will produce in this class! Our creative clay projects will teach basic as well as creative hand-building techniques to include pinching, coiling, sculpture, and glazing. Your child will absolutely love rolling the clay out, pressing a stamp or creating a sculpture!
5-8th Grade Pottery Wheel
Saturdays, 10am-Noon, $60 (members $48)
Your child will really enjoy getting his or her hands dirty while learning the basics of working on the potter’s wheel! We’ll work on wedging, centering, creating a bowl and other creative hand-building projects. Activities also include firing and glazing This is definitely one of our most popular classes, so sign-up early!
Relax with a cup of coffee and a friend or make a quick trip to the grocery store while your child explores and learns at the Ankeny Art Center. Please register in advance at the Ankeny Art Center or on-line with PayPal at www.ankenyartcenter.com. The Ankeny Art Center is located in a City Park at 1520 SW Ordnance Rd in Ankeny across from the John Deere plant near SW State Street. You can also reach us by phone at 515-965-0940.