Siem Reap Creative Pottery Class: Combining Cambodian Pottery Making and Ceramic Painting
4.7
9 Ratings

Bring your artistic skills to Siem Reap, where you can take a 3h30 class combining two artistic activities, Cambodian pottery making and ceramic painting. Under the guidance of a local artist, you’ll learn the history of these ancient cultural traditions and create your own bowl, mugs and saucers to keep as souvenirs.

Duration: 3 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Khmer Ceramics & Fine Arts Centre - A stunning experience in 2 main stages. First stage, the pottery making. And you will experience spinning the wheel! You are guided and assisted by a Cambodian Master Potter. He/she will explain and show you how to make a pot on his potter’s wheel. After, he will assist you to do your own pot. You don’t need any experience; you are talented, and you just don’t know it! When you have done your 5 pots; the master potter will show you how potteries are hand carved in Cambodia. He will again assist you to carve your own creations. Second step, you will pint on ceramics, a great painting ceramics activity. A potter will show you and assist you to paint 3 mugs. Many different style are proposed from Cambodian and Temples inspired design, to modern technique. Stunning results after fixing, your very own creations. We fire 1 piece free for you. Your pot will be fired within 3 to 4 days. Your drawing mugs will be available within 15 minutes. The Pottery Class is a stunning experience; an exceptional opportunity to meet, speak and exchange feelings with real local artisans. Total immersion in local culture, come to visit us!
What's Included
  • All taxes, fees, and handling charges included
  • Interactive pottery class experience
  • Receive a Cambodian Potter Diploma
  • Art materials provided for use
  • Guidance from a local pottery expert
  • Complimentary hotel pickup and drop-off by tuk tuk
  • Refreshments: water and towel provided
  • Craft your own bowl to take home
  • Create and keep 2 elephant mugs
  • Make 2 saucers as keepsakes
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Food and drinks, unless specified
  • Cost of shipping your piece(s) to your home address
Additional Information
  • Your piece(s) will be fired in a kiln overnight; they will be available for pickup the following day
  • If you prefer to have your pieces shipped to your home address, this can be arranged at your own expense
  • Minimum age is 3 years
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
4.7
(9 Ratings)
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Yash
May 4, 2022
This was so much fun, amazing team at Siam reap pottery arts centre. Very friendly and young teachers with a great 1.5-2 hour se - Even though this was our first time doing pottery, we were made aware about each and every possible way to learn atleast 4 items. Session is very well organized and in a small amount of time, under tutelage of arts centre pottery teachers, you can actually build 5-6 pieces. If you are able to come back next the day, roughly 24 hours later, they will give you your pottery pieces. If you have a flight or are continuing onward in your journey, they allow you to pick any items upto 10 USD limit, that you can take from their shop. We had a flight so we picked an item each from their shop. They were super friendly and super cool. Highly recommend this in Siam Reap
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665maddyg
Feb 3, 2020
Great experience - It was my husband and I first time trying our hands at pottery. It was a really fun experience and the teachers also made it such a great experience. We liked that we could keep one pot we made each however unfortunately they didn’t make the trip home in our bags (bad packing). So I would probably recommend bubble wrap or get them posted. If you want something to do and want to try pottery this is a great class to take.
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Kein1311
Dec 1, 2019
Really fun - My group of 12 went to try our hands at pottery making with Khmer Ceramics and Arts Centre on Nov 26. At the onset, booking and communications were easy with Mr. Kimshay via WhatsApp. We were picked up at our hotel and brought to the school. The hands on session was really fun, punctuated with plenty of laughter as some pieces broke off or went awry. We made 5 pieces in total, 3 guided by the instructor and 2 on our own. The instructors were all young and very very friendly. Shared alot of laughter together when our pottery pieces didnt cooperate with us..really really hilarious. In the end we get to choose our favourite piece to be fired and for keeps. We added the painting session, which was a little more serious but no less creative as we painted 4 pieces of ready made pottery. Oh, a final note. Our thanks to Mr. Kimshay. He was a fantastic guy. Very friendly, always accomodating. Kudos to him and his team...the very best. Go do this...it is really really fun..
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Aslanp3
Sep 9, 2019
Mr Aslan Pervez - Fantastic! Would def recommend! Had a great time and the teachers really help and make sure you’re getting on well!
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Noodlesch
Sep 7, 2019
Fun! - Great way to spend an afternoon away from typical tours and markets. The instructors are amazing and the class is designed perfectly for beginners. Highly recommend!!
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Lisa
Oct 21, 2017
Great experience making pottery for the... - <p>Great experience making pottery for the whole family.</p>
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Nicnac1971
Dec 11, 2019
Khmer Ceramics Centre - a must do - If you have a spare couple of hours I highly recommend going to Khmer Ceramics Centre and learn how to make your own pieces. Their location is a short tuk tuk ride out of town and all of their staff are incredibly friendly. All of the instructors are deaf but not knowing sign language is not a problem - you can tell when they are laughing at your disastrous attempts or praising when you get it right. You get to make 5 pieces and then decorate one and they fire it up for you overnight. I love how my bowl turned out and get to keep it as a fond memento for years to come. Thank you at all at Khmer Ceramics
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Schgroup
Nov 27, 2019
Enjoyable! - The pottery class which included modelling and painting already made pieces was an enjoyable experience. The instructors were very patient with our group of 25 students guiding them to produce pieces which they were proud to take home. This was a great activity and also for us to be able to support this social enterprise that provides employment opportunities for disadvantaged young people. Thank you Kimshay and your team!
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Jezreluy
Aug 30, 2018
Fun Learning Experience - This was my first time to learn pottery making and it was more than fun getting my hands dirty learning the art. It was also challenging. This activity is wonderful for solo and group travelers alike. Plus, the instructors (potters) are deaf mute and their skills are just amazing! However, I found the ceramic painting a bit of a bore since they could not provide all the colors I wanted. That's coming from a non-artist like myself. Well, for someone with really good art, I think the lack of color palette wouldn't be problem in making nice paints.
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