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Turn this, into this, to create this. In
this video I'm going to show you an easier less messy way to recycle your
bone-dry clay. Hi, Marie here from Pottery Crafters
where I show you fun pottery making videos with tips tools and techniques
for the beginner Potter's. Many Potter's from experienced to beginners don't want
to or even don't know how to recycle clay and I was no different. At first
recycling looked pretty messy and hard to do. As I watched them slop and slush
the clay on the plaster mold I thought I don't want to do this. But I also didn't
want to waste my clay, so I tried it and I didn't like it. There had to be an
easier way for me not to waste my clay. After trying different ways, I discovered
an easier more manageable less messy way to recycle my clay. Let's get recycling. This is all you'll need to recycle your
clay. Pillowcases or a pouch, you may have seen these. Sheets come in these. This is
very convenient. I love using these pouches. Ties, a hook, and a place to
hook your clay. Be creative, a tree, two chairs and a pipe, your closet. Think of
somewhere you could hang your clay. Buckets. You need at least two buckets.
Plastic bags, make sure you have some with no holes in them. A wear board. Now,
mine is 12 by 16. I really like this size. it's very convenient for me, but you can
have one larger or smaller, it doesn't matter. Whatever is more convenient for
you. A drop cloth or you can use like real tight fabric so the cloth doesn't
get into your clay at all and the particles from the cloth. So the drop
cloth works really good for me and it doesn't have to be that big either. A hammer of course. With the hammer
you're gonna want safety glasses. I've had clay fly up in my face already and
if you're indoors you will want to use one of these dust masks. I love this one,
it's so comfortable and lightweight. It's great for glazing and working with dry
clay. First thing you want to do is dry out any wet clay you have. I like to use
a plastic on my wear board that's so the wear board does not wear out as fast and
it's very convenient. I found doing it this way works best for me. Take your wet clay and place it on your
plastic, then you want to press it down as flat as you can. Whoopsy!  Make sure it doesn't slide
off your wear bored, like that. Wash your hands. Now take a pillowcase and take your hole
wear board and place the clay right inside the pillowcase. I like to do this
actually for two reasons. One, air gets in and your clay will dry out, and two no
debris or bugs are going to get on to your clay while it's drying. Tie it up
and wait. Now depending on the climate you live in it could take a couple of weeks
or a week. For me about four or five days. Because I live in the desert I have an
advantage. Now through the miracle of video the clay is dry. What you have to do is untie it. Now
you'll want to check it from time to time but to make sure that it's dry but
she's dry. Snoopy! Oh my goodness you hate to have
to break it up. Take your drop cloth place Snoopy on the
drop cloth. You can put it back on the wear bored if
you like. Take your safety glasses and as I said earlier if you're indoors make
sure you have your dust mask, use your dust mask. Here's the fun part, start
breaking up the clay. Buy Snoopy. All done. Take your clay put it in the bucket. Now you fill your pillowcase or pouch
whichever is fine. I like to do the pouch. Just put the pillowcase or pouch around
your bucket pour some dry clay. Now I like to pour in about 2 to 4 pounds of
wedgable clay because it's more manageable for me. You can put in more if
you like or less whatever is manageable and wedgable for you. After I place the
dry clay I just wrapped the pillowcase or the pouch around the dry clay. This
helps it dry out more evenly. Then I take another pouch or pillowcase and I place
the clay inside again to dry out more evenly. When I just used one it actually
dried out a little too much on the top because the air got at it. So having 2
works great for me. Now we tie up the pillowcase and place
it in a bucket of water and let it soak. Now I placed my pillowcase into the
water and I would leave it here for at least a day. Make sure there's enough
water in your bucket and I like to cover my bucket especially being outside
because I really don't want debris insects or animals to get into the water.
After a day I check my clay and I'll feel it and it feels nice and smooth no
lumps in it then I know it's time to hook it onto my branch. Take my
pillowcase cover the bucket. Water goes right through the pillowcase and I wait.
I will let it sit out for a couple of days. Then through the magic of video, it's a couple
of days and I checked my clay. It's still a bit mushy, I have to wait another
day. After another day. Hummingbird After another day, come out check my clay. Feels wedgable to me.
Take it down and wedge it out. Like I had said earlier depending on the climate
you live in really dictates how long it's going to take for your clay to dry.
Now I can feel that this is wedgable. Also when you unwrap it from your cloth it will peel right off and you can feel
it. It just feels really nice so you know
it's ready to wedge. Give it a little slam. That wedges nicely.
Nice and malleable. Workable. Oh yeah that's nice. There you go, nice wedgable sized
recycled clay. Just take a bag with no holes in it tie it up. I don't like to
use these twist ties because I found that they can poke into the plastic. I've
had a few of them do that. I like to use the rubber band twist it up. Now take your marker and put the type of clay that it is.
Especially if you have different kinds of clays. Amoco 46 and you can put the
date also. I like to use the older clay first. This is cone 10 and this is cone 5 In this video, I showed you an easier way
to recycle your clay. I like doing it this way because it's not as messy and
smaller amounts are much easier to handle. If you have any recommendations
or other tips or small items to make definitely post those in the comment
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