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Children hand building projects ideas
Animal Pottery Hand-building Ideas



Children hand building projects ideas
Children Hand-building Ideas for Teachers

Page Updated on:
11/10/2025


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Hand-building Pottery Projects & Ideas

Explore over 60 inspiring pottery hand-building projects and ideas, each illustrated with images and often linked to step-by-step lessons. These projects are perfect for students, teachers, beginners, and ceramic artists looking to develop or teach clay-building skills. Lessons include how to make coil pots, pinch pots, slab vases, sgraffito surfaces, wall art, animal planters, textured vessels, and sculptural forms. Whether you're building in a classroom or studio, this gallery will spark creativity and help you master essential clay techniques.
Animal mugs, planters and vases
Sculpted planters - clay coil pot lesson

Owl planter, vases, container
Owl planters - clay coil pot lesson
clay basket with window and handles
Clay wide opening vase - clay slab lesson

ceramic treasure jewelry box
Wheat design boxes - clay slab lesson

Detailed video step-by-step demo - Sgraffito project
Slab quilting textured clay patch work teapot
Quilted teapot hand-building project - clay quilting lesson

 textures slab stamped quilted handbag / pocketbook
Quilted pocketbook project - clay quilting lesson
Pressed leaves on mirror frame
Leaves impression mirror project - Impressing pattern in clay lesson

Pressed leaves on mirror frame
Leaves impression mirror project - Impressing pattern in clay lesson
clay face sculpting easy project
Pinch pot technique - faces rattles
 clay face sculpting easy project
Clay quilt with surface texture pattern
Clay quilted tray - clay quilting lesson
 Clay quilt with surface texture pattern
Textured vase - see lesson

ceramic boxes box projects ideas
Clay box pottery projects ideas - hand-building - clay slab lesson
Patty painting teapot - sgraffito
Patty at work - hand-building pottery - see more about Patty Storms

Triple clay box with lids
weaved texture vase
weaved texture vase with handles
modern weaved texture vase with handles
Baskets pictures
clay box - starfish
Starfish box with lid - see lesson		 applying decorative clay coil to a pot
Large elephant project - Hump soft mold-drop method handbuilding lesson

Clay quilted purses
Quilted clay ceramic purses		 Fish clay candle holders
Fish candle holders
carved clay boxes hand building prokect
Carved clay boxes projects
 slab vase with leaves impression project
Leaves impression triple chamber vase
making decorative coiled pot
Coil basket - see lesson		 Black and white sgraffito frog pot
Sgraffito vase -Sgraffit lesson
bonsai round planter
Bonsai round planter
 bonsai rectangle planter
Bonsai round planter
How to make a hanging water font
Ceramic shoe - See Lesson		 Fish carved lantern - bottom
Sgraffito pottery vase - Sgraffit lesson
Fish sgrafitto bowl sgarfitto lidded box
Olive sgrafitto carved vase
 Fish carved lantern - bottom

Sgraffito Potter Bowl - salmon

pagoda lantern
Pagoda lantern
 pagoda lantern rear door
Pagoda lantern rear
pagoda lantern
Pagoda lantern
 pagoda lantern set
Pagoda lantern set
multi medial handles for clay projects
Multimedia handles ideas
 coiled basket
Coiled basket
turtle jar
Turtle jar
 turtle jar under side
Turtle jar - bottom lantern
tall hand built vase
Textured vase		 lizard hand built vase
Lizard vase
leaves impression vases
Leaves vase
 Animal planter
turtle lantern
Turtle lantern
 rear openning - turtle lantern
Rear opening - turtle lantern
Hand built pitchers with leaves design
Hand built pitchers with leaves design
 Hand build pitchers and jar
Hand build pitchers and jar
Octopus platter - sculpted
Octopus platter - see it glazed		 Carved incense jar with feet
Hand-building carved incense jar project
leaves stamped vase leaves stamped tags
twisted pots - vases and jar
Twisted pots ideas		 clay box - starfish
Starfish box with lid - see lesson
bread basket
Frog butter dish with lid - project Frog butter dish - lid up
Frog butter dish project
Terra cotta houses
clay box lid and ribbon
 outdoors clay greenman
Green man
Hand building project - octopus climbing on vase
Octopus vase - hand-building advanced project (Cannoli, the cat, is great help) Click

Hand building project - octopus climbing on vase
Octopus vase

triple fish large candle holder
Fish bowl
Elephant clay holder - for large candle
 modern curved top vase
Garlic keeper on garlic grinder saucer
Garlic keeper on garlic grinder saucer
 Garlic keeper with lid
Garlic keeper with lid
Lidded garlic keeper
Garlic keeper with lid
 Garlic keeper with lid
Lidded garlic keeper
Hand sculpted clay pears project
Pinch pots technique - pears		 Sgraffito fish box with lid
Fish Sgraffito technique
three section modern wing like handles
Sectioned top "winged" modern vase
My love, Patty, designing yet another project for the handbuilding class
In the studio building a new idea
Tripple chamber sgraffito vase - bisqued fired
Three sections Sgraffito vase		 organic ceramic bottles
sgraffito teapot with lid
Sgraffito teapot project		 large sgraffito fish vase
Fish Sgraffito technique, large vase
slab construction birdfeeder
Bird house
slab constructed wren birdhouse
Bird wren house
stoneware clay slab hanging birdhouse
Fly through bird feeder		 leather hard slab clay bird house collection
Bird houses
stoneware hand built birdfeeder project
Bird feeder		 egg shap ceramci bird house
Bird house
shoulder ceramic bottles pproject ideas for children or adult classes
Shoulder bottles
Boxes with lids
ceramic teapot projects collection
Teapots		 Sgraffito starfish
Sgraffito starfish

carving surface texture on hand built clay project
Round container 		making a handle on a casserole
Round container
animal shape slab vases
Bird slab vases		 weaving baskets with extruded clay
Basket weaving - extruded clay
clay box lid and ribbon
 Dancing people clay vases -containers
Extruded containers

Hand building sea crab - clay projects for adults and children classes
Clay crab hand-building project
set of large coil construction clay pots
Coil pots		 Candle holder sea urchin
Sea urchin candle holder
using clay coil to make a decorative bowl
Coil plate / platter		 making large pots using coil
Ali Baba coil pots
berry bowl with raised texture
Square colander		 clay berry colander
Rectangle colander

ceramic pasta strainer with handles
Oval colander with handles		 hand built flat form with surface texture
Round colander
square clay box - project idea
Square box with lid		 Berry bowl clay project ideas
Set of berry bowls
ceramic curved clay box with lid
Rectangle box with lid		 ceramic curved clay box with lid
Rectangle box with lid
clay boxes ideas
Box collection		 impressing leaves into clay for texture
Plate leaf impression - texture lesson
tall clay box with puzzle lid
Box with cut lid		 tall carved clay box with puzzle lid
Box with cut lid - keyed
clay hedgehog made with pinchpots
Pinch pot hedgehog - see lesson

clay hedgehog made with pinchpots
Pinch pot hedgehog - glazed
ceramic sugar box with lid
Sugar bowl		 ceramic sugar conainer with lid
Sugar bowl
commission ceramic lantern
Lantern assortment		 whimsical clay boxes
Covered pots
bird shape vases
Bird shape vases- slab construction
impressing leaves on clay
Impressed leaves - see texture lesson		 ceramic carved lantern custom order
Carved lanterns
clay leaves bowl with leaf texture
Leaves bowl		 leaves ceramic bowl
Leaves bowl
lizard vases hand building clay project
Lizard vases - see lesson		 totempoll vase - gret children's project
Clay Totem pole
Tall elegant ceramic pitcher
Tall pitcher		 carving on outdoors terra cotta clay planter
Carved Terra Cotta pot
Clay trophy
Large vase / trophy - see lesson		 Hand build creamer
Creamer
clay pumpkins project idea
Pumpkin set		 Pumpkin set glazed
Pumpkin set glazed
customized ring bearer bowl
Ring Bearer bowl		 Pyramid box
Lizard box with lid
surface nature texture on vase
Nature stamped vases		 narrow elegant teapot
Flying teapot

sgraffito clay projects design ideas
Sgraffito vases - See lesson		 Sgraffito octopus bowl
Sgraffito octopus bowl
carving sgraffito on clay
Curved Sgraffito vases -Sgraffito lesson		 large ceramic tray project
Long serving tray
Hole through a vase project
Vase with hole through		 clay sculptures - portraits
Portrait sculptures
terra cotta sun
Terra Cotta sun		 clay sun - outdoors clay project
Terra Cotta sun
clay turtle front view
Turtle front view		 clay turtle side view
Turtle side view
clay turtle bottom view
Turtle bottom view		 clay turtle face close up
Turtle side view close up
hanging clay basket - carving
Wall hung font / basket - see lesson		 clay water font with carved leaves
Carved font - see lesson

clay animals using pinch pot
Walrus
Walrus
carving caly vase
Carved pottery vase
Small bottles
large clay watering cane
Water cane		 Slab vase with raied texture
Vase with texture front
hand built pumpking - using slab technique
Clay pumpkins
Hand built Tagine

Chicken roaster		 Fish carved lantern
Fish carved lantern
soft mold clay project
Elephant soft mold - see lesson		 custom made trophy project with lots of help
"Pet Project" with a lot of help
Clay quilted purses
Quilted clay ceramic purses
High heeled shoe wine holder
High heeled clay shoe wine holder


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