299 So. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 650-323-1515
Create It Ceramics is the perfect place for a field trip. Your students and
participants will love you for it!
Pre-schools, day cares, after-school, summer and enrichment programs
will all enjoy great field trips to our studio. We can work with almost any
theme you may have, and can put a program together for you if you wish.
If you can’t come to us, we’ll come to you!
Enjoy great pricing with a minimum of 10 painters.
$3 per painter plus pottery piece.
$30 away fee per employee per 2 hour period if we travel to your location.
Girl Scout Program
LOOKING FOR A UNIQUE ACTIVITY FOR YOUR SCOUT TROOP?
Earn your pottery badge with a fun hands-on activity.
We will show you how pottery goes from being a modest slab of clay to a
hand-crafted work of art! Take a tour of the studio and see how we glaze
& fire your pottery! Plus you'll get to paint your own piece to give as a gift or
keep for yourself!
Junior Girl Scout Badge Program
Ceramics and Clay Badge
Create It Ceramics will work with your troop to fulfill six of the
requirements for the Ceramics and Clay Badge:
- Handle With Care: An explanation of what clay is and how to
properly store and care for it.
- Make a pinch pot: Girls will make a pinch pot with their clay slab*
- Coils: Girls will make a coil cup with their clay slab*
- Time For Tiles: Girls will paint 6” tiles.
- Grin and Glaze It: This includes information on underglazes and
overglazes.
- Fuel and Fire: The troop will be shown how the kilns work.
$15 per painter includes all supplies, glazing and firing and 6 inch tile.
*Due to time constraints clay items will not be fired. Participants can take them
home to dry or save the wet clay to work with at a later date.
Creative Meetings
Looking for something different to do with your Daisy, Brownie or Girl and
Boy Scout Troop? Create It Ceramics is a great place for your creative
meetings. Paint with your troop at a reduced studio fee.
$3 per painter plus pottery piece.
Some meeting suggestions:
 | | Banks - great option! Paint a bank after earning your Money |
| | Sense Badge and set goals for personal savings, vacations, or saving for a troop activity or charity.
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 | | Memo Boards - turn a ceramic tile into a memo board. You can |
| | write on it with a dry erase marker once it's been glazed and fired.
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Home School Programs
If you have a home school program and would like to make an
educational field trip to Create It Ceramics, we’ll teach your students the
basics of ceramics while they get creative!
 | | What is Bisque?
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 | | Underglazes and Overglazes
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 | | General Pottery Painting Techniques
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 | | Glazing and Firing Processes
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$3 per painter plus pottery piece | |
Field Trip Programs
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