This video shows the Easiest Ever Method to Make a Hard or Stiff Block of Clay More Plastic! By adding a bit of water to your bag of stiff clay, (MAKE SURE YOUR BAG DOES NOT HAVE HOLES!) then submerging it in a bucket of water, the all over water contact force the water into the clay! (Is it water pressure? I don't know?!). It’s a game-changer!!! As a teacher, I just wish I would have known this years ago when I started teaching clay! The block of clay I am using is a bit too stiff for my kids to wedge, and I added about 6-8 ounces of water to it. If your clay is drier, you will need more than that, along with more time! I have used closer to 12 ounces and several weeks of waiting for it to absorb for really hard clay. Toward the end of the video, I show what to do if it gets a little too wet!
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I am a public high school ceramics teacher at William Mason High School in Mason, Ohio. (Mason is currently the largest high school in Ohio!) As a potter, I have been working in clay for over 30 years, and I have been teaching for over 28 years, the past 20 have been specifically teaching high school ceramics. I love what I do! I have my own studio in my home basement, where I work on my personal pottery for my Etsy site; [ Ссылка ]
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