Brownie Potter badge- Part 1

We are working with the supplemental badge skills booklets in our troop right now. The potter's badge we worked on for two weeks. And like any current troop leader, when I need an idea I get on Pinterest.

I got an idea while I was looking for things for camp. The idea was to take polymer clay and to wrap a fork and spoon with it. This will give them awesome utensils for their mess kits.

I decided that we should do a pinch pot kind of fork and a coil wrap for the spoons. This covers two kinds of potter. Our school art teacher is huge on clay and pottery and I knew that they have already made a few tea cups. I have a whole shelf of pottery from both kids.

We used oven baked clay that I picked up from Walmart. I got like the big sampler pack that had several glow in the dark colors. I knew that would go over big with the girls plus there were sparkly and glittery ones too.

I gave the girls two choices of colors and they first made the pinch fork and then made huge "snakes" of clay to do the coils. We were able to finish them up and bake them in the hour before the parents came. This gave the girls something to take home with them and to show their parents. I think that too often, we do things and they have to wait a week to take them home. Then they forget all about it by the time that they pick them up the next week. I have a closet full of projects that kids forgot all about.

We carved their names in them or their initials.  We were able to use these at camp and they were a hit.

The next thing that we did was make beads. We used the same clay and I once again let the girls pick two colors. They made them into balls first and then we flattened them out a bit. We took these rhinestone charms and pushed them in. Then poked holes through the top centers. These needed to be baked longer and had to go home with me.

This night was a success and every one went home with a smile.

This is the original website that I got the idea from. Guidershine