Blue and white pottery
I love white pottery decorated with blue designs, and have quite a bit of it from Vietnam (and some from China and some from Greece). So, as I was pondering what type of craft we should do when we visited Vietnam, I thought some sort of pottery craft would be fun. Sometimes Pinterest is great and sometimes there just isn't what you are looking for. This was a case of the latter as I was doing research. I was on my own.
I found that there is a type of paint that you can use on pottery, then bake in the oven, and the decoration becomes so permanent that it is dishwasher safe. This sounded good. Even better, this paint came in paint markers, which I love, because they really reduce the mess factor and a a marker is easier to control than a paint brush. I then found some porcelain blanks which were dirt cheap. Of course the shipping was twice as much for each item as the actual cost, but even then, it was pretty inexpensive.
This morning was our craft day for Vietnam, since tomorrow we'll be gone most of the day on a field trip. We listened to Vietnamese traditional music, and painted rice bowls. Personally, I think the beauty of doing just blue on the white is that everything looks good, which makes it one of those great crafts that everyone can do and feel successful.
I found that there is a type of paint that you can use on pottery, then bake in the oven, and the decoration becomes so permanent that it is dishwasher safe. This sounded good. Even better, this paint came in paint markers, which I love, because they really reduce the mess factor and a a marker is easier to control than a paint brush. I then found some porcelain blanks which were dirt cheap. Of course the shipping was twice as much for each item as the actual cost, but even then, it was pretty inexpensive.
This morning was our craft day for Vietnam, since tomorrow we'll be gone most of the day on a field trip. We listened to Vietnamese traditional music, and painted rice bowls. Personally, I think the beauty of doing just blue on the white is that everything looks good, which makes it one of those great crafts that everyone can do and feel successful.
R.
L.
Each bowl came individually wrapped.
K. and G.
TM and P.
The insides
R.'s... see what I mean about the blue and white working regardless?
G.'s... with panda's (or course), but she also illustrated the outside with scenes from the Vietnamese folk tales we read.
Here is her picture of the man who ended up on the moon.
TM's... rice paddy fields
and Ha Long Bay.
L.'s
D.'s... those are swans, it's just hard to see in the picture
A bunny on Y.'s
I put water buffaloes on mine
There are still two bowls to paint. I'm going to see if I can get A. and M. to each do one. I ordered 12 of them. It seemed like a good number. Until after they arrived when I realized we actually have 14 people in our family, and that I won't have enough to serve rice in if everyone is home.
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