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Looking for a fun and unique activity to help celebrate a child's birthday? A Pottery at Your Place birthday party is super fun, truly unique and so easy!

Company founder, Peg Gaillard was an art history major in college and feels strongly that children should be offered artistic freedom when painting pottery: "We feature functional pottery pieces for children's' birthday parties because we want to provide children the ceramic equivalent of a blank canvas. A plate or cereal bowl offers them the opportunity to do anything! A few dabs of color here and there on a cereal bowl will look great and the child will then be able to proudly eat out of it everyday. It is extremely difficult and frustrating for a young child to paint a small statue of a mermaid, for example, and have it look good."

Here's how it works:
Our trained Pottery at Your Place Representative will set-up the pottery painting and come with all supplies needed including brushes, glazes, stencils, stamps, sponges, placemats and pottery! Our Representatives are also ready and willing to help the children with their creations. Maybe they want to make leopard spots on their bowl or a watermelon on their plate. We can show them how! After the party, the pieces will be kiln-fired, packaged and returned to the party hostess within a week to 10 days.

Our PYP Birthday Party Includes:
Your choice of one of these items to paint at the party:

Regular Mug
Salad Plate
Cereal Bowl
Piggy Bank

Also included is a commemorative birthday plate. Let your child and friends decorate it any way they like and create a lasting memento of the party!

All parties have a 8-child minimum and the cost is $18 per child. The birthday child paints for free at parties with more than twelve guests! Please book your birthday party at least two weeks in advance by calling Pottery at Your Place at (978) 372-5405 or by contacting your local area Representative in the "Contact Us" section of this website.

No PYP Representative in your area? You can order our Birthday Party in a Box from our online store!

We'll pack up the appropriate number of pottery pieces, glaze colors, brushes, placemats and complete instructions so that you can throw your own pottery-painting party at home. Once the party is over, simply pack the pottery up as you received it and ship it back to us for firing. We'll ship the finished pottery back to you within a week or so.

Pottery Fun with the Kids Any Time of the Year!

Kids Pottery Painting Art Classes:
We have also developed a curriculum of pottery painting art classes that are popular with schools and daycare facilities. We infuse the pottery painting with a lesson in either art history or art theory. Gaillard says: "We have taught kids about Monet, Mondrian, Rousseau, Van Gogh, O'Keeffe, Kandinsky, Pollock and others…and they end up with a painted piece of pottery to remind them of the lesson…what fun!"

Your kids' handprint plate or platter! The perfect Mother-in-law gift!
Have a festive family party for your friends. Get the kids to "lend their hands" and make handprints on a plate/platter. Send them off to play and you and your friends can finish the pieces up by adding decorative borders, children's names and dates! A guaranteed winner of a gift!

Valentine's Day Gifts Made Simple:
We've got everything you need to make Valentine's Day memorable. We've got heart boxes, heart plates, and heart bowls. See these great examples of Valentine gift ideas:

Decorate with Autumn Leaves!
Collect a variety of interesting leaves in your back yard or neighborhood. Use these leaves to paint and press on pottery pieces for a simple, unique and elegant look!

Halloween:
Creating Halloween pottery is fun with the whole neighborhood. Jack-o-lantern mugs are fun are easy!

Unique Teachers' Gifts!
Let's face it; we can all do better than the traditional apple! Many teachers here in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine have received the ultimate commemorative, year-end gift from their classes: a large bowl or platter decorated with their students' handprints. These are truly gifts that they will treasure.

Fundraisers:
Gather the entire school community together for a unique and fun pottery-painting event and raise money for you school, too! Contact us for details on how to make this happen.