Decorative Dinner Plate

Delft Blue Colonial Dinner Plates made by 5th grade students

Grade Level: 2th-8th grade

Length: 

Day 1--60 minutes to make plate

Day 2--60 minutes to glaze plate

Goals: Students will learn basic slab building techniques for creating a piece of functional pottery.

Project Variation/Modification Ideas: This project is highly adaptable!

Students can make plates that 
  • explore color, form, shape, and/or texture
  • parallel, enhance, and diversify teachers' curriculum in science, history, math, art, literature through representational carving and/or glazing