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Water Is The Best Liquid To Use When Molding Clay

By Aydan Corkern
Sep 22, 2008
When you want to make pottery, all you have to do is get a machine that is used for clay. Then all you have to add is water to mold it into a bowl or a staccato. You can make it look any way you want to. You can also cut pieces on a big chuck of clay and mold it together to make a masterpiece of art, and show it to people or your friends and your family.

Playing with clay is fun because you can get it all over the place, and it is so cool to see what you can make out of it. You can put it in your yard and in your house, but you have to cook it first in a very high temperature over. Let it cook for a long time so it will get hard and so it won't melt because of the heat. You have to have the heat set over 100 degrees Fahrenheit to cook the clay. You can have your works of art displayed over your pond, on your porch, in your living room, at the end of your driveway, or built into your mailbox. You can make a bench, put them in the store, or on the sidewalks in front of any stores that will let you.

You can make staccatos of people, animals, creatures, fairies, monsters, and all kinds of things. If you are using a machine, you have to run your finger up the pottery or the sculpture to make it get bigger and taller into whatever you want. If you use too much water, it will make a mess and fall over. Then it will be no good so you have to start all over again to make the thing that you wanted to make in the first place. You will have so much fun doing it because of it being so messy. If you have a friend over and you two are making things and you mess up, you can have a clay war and get it everywhere. Do it in the basement or some place else, or you will get in trouble by your parents.

If you haven't tried it, you need to. It will be a blast of fun for you and any one else for that fact. But listen to your parents when you do this because they will have rules.
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