1. Test drive your wheel. Check out the pedal and get a feel of how hard you need to press the pedal.
2. Get the wheel ready: clean off the tile but don't have it too wet.
3. Take your hunk of clay and pat it into a ball - don't knead it like bread, just toss it back and forth in your hands until it is a ball.
4. Throw your ball on the wheel and keep it and your hands really wet. Make sure it's stuck or it will fly off. Elyse must have had her wheel a little too wet!
5. Turn your wheel on fast, brace your elbow and hunker down as your hands cup the clay and you form a volcano. Mine turned out more like a Dairy Queen ice cream cone. Michi said, "It's fine. Volcanoes come in many different shapes!"
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