Pottery Fun!

Learning pottery was a long term wish...finally we started with our other homeschooler friend. It's a two hour morning class, twice in a week. It's actually not class ...not have to worry from timing to which days we will attend , everything flexible and no class like environment.....it's just learning with fun.

Since Nagji kaka ( our pottery teacher ) complete his routine and prepare soil, children enjoy warming up with 'chulha' in his backyard, collect broken pot pieces, empty match boxes, used string rolls etc. They bake small pots they prepared in 'chulha' and many more fire experiments!!!. His backyard is very interesting for children as it has kitchen garden, lots of different size and shape pots, pottery kiln, place to prepare soil etc. So, many interesting things generates so many questions.

Then on pottery wheel children try to make many small pots under Nagjikaka's guidance. It is amazing thing for them that so many pots can be build from such a small lump of soil , slight pressure and angle of touch can make change on spinning soil and create different shaped pots. It requires good concerntration and control over hands. Nagjikaka has two students and while one is on pottery wheel other is playing with Megh or Nagjikaka's grandson or with puppies, experiment with 'chulha' or just take some snack bites.

This place is in Surat but locality and environment are different and children enjoys this difference very much. After pottery class sometimes we visits to cattle shed nearby. It's good chance to meet different people along with making friendship with cows and buffalos!

While returning. at river lots of seagulls adding beauty to the scene catches children's attention.

So, this is our typical pottery class morning.