Pottery is one of the world’s most ancient arts, along with drawing on caves, pounding on pelt drums, and watching PBS. Channel your ancestral creativity with today’s Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of pottery painting at Pottery Hollow with locations in Glen Carbon and Fairview Heights.

Pottery Hollow allows the dexterous digits of craft-crazy customers to come in and sit down for creative custom pottery-painting sessions with Come in and Paint. Step up to the table, roll up the sleeves, and dab a brush in any color you choose to begin work on your own masterpiece of custom-painted pottery. The supply fee includes paints, brushes, firing, and everything else necessary for enshrouding pieces in carefully mused designs and ironic communist propaganda ($8 for adults, $5 for children). Select any piece of bisque to chroma-coat, from mugs and animals to grandiose platters and ceramic monster trucks ($5–$60). Following the pigmentation frenzy, the professionals at Pottery Hollow will glaze the work and fire pieces in their kiln, ensuring a shiny, permanent finish without the dangers of shoving untrained arms into fiery infernos.

Reviews

Five Insider Pagers give the Pottery Hollow in Fairview Heights an average of four stars:

• The staff is always professional and courteous and always make a huge impact on myself and my children, what a great way for families to bond. – Olivia J.
• All in all, it was a nice treat to be able to create unique gifts instead of running from store to store looking for something special. My daughter and I had fun and save some money to boot. – Ray M.