Clay Flower Pot: An Easy 2D Clay Modeling Activity for Kids

A small 2D clay modeling project attempted with my daughter on Friday afternoon and here is how we did it. Clay used for this project is plasticine clay that all the kids love to play with and the advantage of using plasticine clay is that you can reuse it for another project if you store them well. We have probably done so many clay modeling work using this same clay. You can refer to some of our previous work done by visiting our previous blog posts.

This post gives you a picture tutorial that explains every step for making clay the flower pot. Its an easy DIY clay modeling activity that the kids can try with little help from parents. 

For this project we used: 

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Pink and Black color clay. 

Firstly let's start with the flower. Make 5 tiny balls of equal sizes first. Then flatten each clay ball, and shape them into a petal as shown in the first step.

Step 01: Shaping the petals

Make five such petals and arrange them in a circle to form a flower.

Step 02: Arrange 5 petals to form a flower

Next, take a yellow color clay ball for the center of the flower

Step 03: Yellow ball for the flower center

Use a sketch pen lid to give an indentation to the flower center. You may even skip this step and move to the next step directly.

Step 04: Make indentation with a sketch pen lid

Shape the flower center as shown using your fingers.

Step 05: Shaping the flower center

Now all you need to do is place it at the flower center.

Step 06: Place it at the center of the flower

Time to make the stems and the leaves using green color clay. Roll them into snakes and bend them to form leaves.

Step 07: Shaping the leaves

Make long snakes for the stems.

Step 08: Shaping the stems

For the pot, we used black color clay. Make a long snake with the black clay and keep bending them and stacking them one upon the other till you get the fpot shape.

Step 09: Shaping the pot

Use the orange, pink and blue color clay to make the flower as shown in the previous steps. Arrange all the flowers, stems and leaves on the pot as shown in the picture below.

Done: Clay flower pot is ready

Note, this is just a 2D clay modeling project which you can just arrange. We disassembled the entire project and rolled back the clay to use it for another project.

It was a fun project done with my daughter and it took us around 30 minutes to finish it all.

Here's a link to a quick preview of the steps on our youtube channel.

Hope this tutorial is helpful.

Thank you for stopping by...Have a good day.

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