How To Make A Ceramic Slab Plate

Cut slits to help remove the surrounding clay.

How to make a ceramic slab plate.

Press down firmly and roll out the clay. You don t need to flatten out the edge completely. Leave the plate on the mold to dry completely while wrapped in plastic sheet. Cut slits to help remove the surrounding clay.

Place newspaper pattern on slab and cut out plate using a fettling knife a plastic picnic knife works well for elementary age artists. Using your fingers smooth the edges of the plate. Position the rolling pin so that it sits on top of the two sticks with the clay in the middle. Save leftover clay for feet balls of clay for feet by hand or foot coil of clay for foot by wheel.

Roll slab to 3 8 to 1 2 thickness and large enough for at least one plate per slab. In this video we learn how to make a ceramic slab plate. Roll in multiple directions to create a slab. After this place the clay on butcher or newspaper and smooth it out with a plastic card.

Next use a paper template to help cut your design or use a circular object. Next use a paper template to help cut your design or use a circular object. Repeat this on the other side. First roll out the ceramic.

After this place the clay on butcher or newspaper and smooth it out with a plastic card. Cut through the border with the needle tool by making a slit from the edge of the plate out to the edge of the clay. Repeat this on the other side. Once it is dry this could take up to two weeks bisque fire glaze and glaze fire the plate as you would with any other ceramic piece.

In this video we learn how to make a ceramic slab plate. If necessary use water to moisten the edges if it s cracking. First roll out the ceramic.