Teachers
Children Deserve Safe Classrooms & Successful Art Projects Regardless of School Budget
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Partnering with AMACO for art class is a safe bet for teachers. Our products and equipment give reliable results, are engineered with safety first, and are backed by Teacher Support Monday-Friday. You will maximize classroom time, avoid frustration, and increase student success when you buy our products! As a founding member of the Art & Creative Materials Institute, you can rest assured that our products are formulated for safety as much as for quality.
Lesson Plan 31 African Mask made with Balsa-Foam.
We have ceramic products and equipment, including Brent potter’s wheels, for full firing classrooms. But if you do not yet have a full ceramic firing program, we offer our own recommended start up programs for different budgets. And to help jump start a wheel throwing program, we offer the new QuickCenter, a centering device, which automatically centers clay as ‘training wheels’ for beginners. Check out our new Ceramic Installation pages and think about how a ceramic installation at your school can add history, pride and inspiration to your community. See Lesson Plan #1 to learn more.
We also offer classrooms with smaller budgets a large selection of non-firing clays, sculpting and modeling compounds such as our classics, Sculptamold and Claycrete, often used for masks, puppets, and armatured sculptures. Crea-Stone is a casting/scupting compound which is easily carved or chiseled. See our Lesson Plans 26-28 to learn more. Please try our new Balsa-Foam—it carves like butter, and paints like wood! Already have three Lesson Plans utilizing Balsa-Foam!
Ceramic Jester Shoe made with AMACO products by student J. Hudson.
Recommended AMACO/Brent Products for the Classroom:
- 586 AP Non Toxic Lead Free Glazes & Underglazes with quality formulation for reliable results. Try our NEW Potter’s Choice colors with a special Sampler Pack! Click here for details. See what people are saying about our Velvet Underglazes!
- 8 Brent Wheel Models (including the No. 16 Adaptive Wheel)
- 8 Long Life AMACO Square Kiln Models
- 10 Affordable Excel Round Kiln Models
- 12 AP Non Toxic Talc Free Ceramic High Fire and Low Fire Clays
- 3 AP Non Toxic Talc Free Self Hardening Clays
- 3 Colors of AP Non Toxic Talc Free Air Dry Clay
- Magic Mud Multi-Project Pack with Parent/Teacher Guidebook
- Warm Glass Supplies for Ceramic Programs with Glass Firings
See how the QuickCenter can be used as ‘training wheels’ for centering on the potter’s wheel.
