Paint at Home Pottery and Clay at Home kits
We have the option for you to paint pottery at home using our paint at home pottery kits or create your very own piece in clay with our Clay at Home kits.
To make it easy we include a leaflet explaining how to use the paints and ideas of how to create patterns, a colour chart for mixing other colours (or you can order extra pots of colour) and a health and safety sheet for the paints.
There are handy tip videos on our Pottery painting page and Clay activity pages to help you start off at home if you have not been to our studio before.
Collection times – you select these at the end of your shopping. Currently Thursday late afternoon/evening and Saturday morning. However if we can, we will try to meet at other times ,just put a request in the notes on your order and we will call you. You will have to select Thrusday or Saturday to be able to check out and purchase your kits thanks
Stock – we endeavour to keep our website stock levels up to date, though on busy days in the studio this can alter within minutes. If an order is placed and we find we are out of stock an alternative will be offered. If you require more items than are available please call us to check what we have.
How to build and order your Paint at Home kits;
1.Choose the pottery items you wish to paint
2.Then choose the number of pottery paint sets you require – see info under the paint set photo below
Added extras
3.You can add in big fan brushes for background painting or more small brushes.
4.You can add in extra pots of paint in different colours
5.The pottery paint set includes set 5 colours (info under photo below) you can if you prefer to, opt for 5 different colours – please put this in the notes if you wish to do this.
Please read the information under the paint set picture below before ordering.
Complete kits
There are some complete kits on offer below, which include the pottery items and paint sets together. Otherwise all other pottery items do not have paints included with them.
You choose the pottery item/s you wish to paint
Then choose how many paint sets you need;
Pottery paint set
We recommend that you use these paints for all of the pottery items and it is a must if you are painting tableware items.
Once you have painted your pottery items with these you have to return them to be glazed and fired 4 U. Please get in touch to arrange a drop off date and time.
This is what gives your pottery the shiny look and it makes the tableware items safe to use with food and drinks, just the same as your plates are at home.
These paint sets include;
5 colours; Red, yellow, blue, white and black. You can mix them to create other colours following the colour chart included.
1 small brush
The cost of the glazing and firing fee for your pottery.
The set will do up to 3-4 small pieces or 2 medium pieces ( e.g.mugs) or 1 large piece ( dinner plate / plant pot / tea pot) depending on how you choose to paint the pottery.
Additional colours can be ordered as extras to a paint set
Acrylic paint set
Only for ornamental items.
The strip of 8 small pots with different colours has the full rainbow range in it. These colours dry with a matt finish and do not need to go into the kiln. Includes one small brush.
There is enough paint to do 2-3 small items or one large ornament.