05
Sep
How to Make a Clay Model of an Oyster Shell
Today’s homeschool handicraft project is a clay model of an oyster shell. We will be making model #44 from the book, A Manual of Clay-Modelling by Hermione Unwin as part of our clay modelling series. We are not in a situation where we can go oyster hunting, so we stopped at the seafood section of our grocery store and bought a lone oyster. It was live and firmly shut, so we steamed it, just like we did our mussels, to encourage it to open. It opened slowly, so we were then able to break it apart and remove the meat...