• Three handbuilt clay jack-o'-lantern pumpkin lanterns with carved faces on a studio shelf at Claya Studios, RiNo, Denver
  • Two terracotta clay pumpkin lanterns with carved jack-o'-lantern faces from the handbuilding workshop at Claya Studios, Denver
  • Handbuilt clay pumpkin lanterns, one with a curled witch hat stem and one with a green leaf, in the kiln room at Claya, Denver
  • A black clay pumpkin lantern next to a terracotta jack-o'-lantern with a curly stem, handbuilt at Claya Studios in Denver
  • Handbuilt clay jack-o'-lantern with a twisted stem and carved face on a shelf at Claya Studios, 3440 Walnut St, Denver
  • Hands centering clay on a pottery wheel at Claya, 3440 Walnut St, RiNo, Denver
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Handbuilt Pumpkin Lantern Workshop

Handbuilt Pumpkin Lantern

$70.00 USD
$70.00 USD
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Carve out a spooky-good night at Claya! 🎃 This class is perfect for everyone from absolute beginners to experienced handbuilders, no clay experience needed.

Pick one night. Each session is a complete 2.5-hour class.

In one hands-on evening, you'll build your own ceramic jack-o'-lantern luminary from a lump of clay. Here's what's in the cauldron:

  • Form your pumpkin: press clay into our custom 3D-printed molds to get that perfect pumpkin shape, then add a stem and make it yours.
  • Design and carve: give it a goofy grin, a spooky scowl, or something totally your own. Carve out eyes, teeth, and cut-outs that will glow once the lights go down.
  • Dry it fast: we break out the heat guns to firm up your pumpkin so you can keep going.
  • Glaze it: glaze your pumpkin in whatever colors you like. Orange is classic, but green, purple, black, speckles, and stripes are all fair game.

Shape it, carve it, paint it. You Build & Glaze, We Fire, so your lantern comes out of the kiln ready to glow.

After class, Claya fires your glazed lantern in the kiln. It's ready to pick up about 2 weeks later (lanterns from the October 24 session will be ready in early November), and we'll email you when yours is ready.

$70 per person for the October 17 and October 24 sessions. All clay, tools, underglazes, glazes and firing are included. Each session is a small group.

Details

  • Saturday, October 10, 2026, 6:00–8:30 PM, with Ethan Billings (sold out)
  • Saturday, October 17, 2026, 6:30–9:00 PM (instructor TBA)
  • Saturday, October 24, 2026, 6:00–8:30 PM (instructor TBA)
  • About 2.5 hours
  • Ages 18+
  • Claya, 3440 Walnut Street, RiNo Arts District, Denver
  • Wear clothes you can get clay on
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