Spirit animals give us strength, hope, love and comfort – they are all around us of we are open to seeing them! This was such a fun project in our pottery camp last week!\u00a0 Kids really embraced the idea and ran with it.<\/p>\n
We introduced students to the ceramic spirit guide sculptures of Florida artist Denise Ferragamo<\/strong><\/a> and talked about the meaning of spirit animals, and had a great discussion about what everyone thought their spirit animal was.\u00a0 We were amazed at how different everyone’s ideas were!<\/p>\n We had horses and frogs and wolves and hares… to name just a few!<\/p>\n The construction for the body was a basic slab cylinder about the size of a toilet paper tube, with a pinch pot head.\u00a0 \u00a0We talked about quilts and their texture and stitching, and how to create a layered look to appear as if the animals were cloaked in layers of soft blankets.\u00a0 We demonstrated how to create a look of draped material wrapped around their shoulders, fastened at the collar.<\/p>\n