Girls trip ideas › Clay and pottery
Admit it, you’ve watched at least one pottery video at midnight and thought, ’I could do that.’ Now’s your chance. Your own host, a lump of clay each and a few little pieces to take home, then dinner, drinks and somewhere to stay for all of you.
The clay can take it.
Everyone in this group has lost an hour of sleep to pottery videos. Someone turns a lump of clay into something ridiculously cute while you lie there wondering if you could do that too. You took the hint from your own search history.
Some heads think best when the hands are busy. Eyes on the clay, somebody says the thing she’s been carrying around for weeks, and nobody looks up, which is exactly why it comes out. Said out loud with the girls around you, it’s a lot smaller than it felt.
Some of you will make a tidy little bowl and some will make a creature of uncertain species, but everyone will swear it’s meant to look like that. By the end the table is covered in little pieces that look remarkably like the women who made them.
There’s a version of you that only comes out around these women, loud and entirely unbothered, and she’s well overdue some time off.
A lump each, a host and a lot of laughing.
A clay and pottery girls trip with My Ultimate is a hands-on clay workshop with your own host, at your apartment or in a studio just for your group, built into a whole girls weekend with somewhere to stay, food, drinks and a night out.
Bags down, the living room claimed and outfits held up for the group verdict, because once you head out the afternoon rolls straight on.
A rooftop with oversized lounges and share plates, the kind of catch up that needs several stories going at once.
At the apartment dining table in Melbourne, or in a studio that’s all yours in Sydney and Brisbane. For a while the room goes very quiet with concentration.
Each of you shapes your own pieces and decorates them your way. Somebody says ’it’s meant to look like that’ at least four times.
Every piece held up for inspection, and somebody already researching pottery classes. We support the new personality.
Pizza by the river in Melbourne, hot grazing and a bottle by the water in Sydney, a tropical garden bar and a VIP booth in Brisbane. There’s still a little clay under a few fingernails.
Pick your city, pick your lump.
Each one is a whole girls weekend with the clay built in: somewhere to stay, the food, the drinks and where to next, already in an order that works. Each city’s page has it alongside every other girls weekend there.
Prices are from, per person, for a minimum of six. Accommodation can cost more on busy dates such as school holidays, so we confirm the price for your exact dates.
Melbourne
Shape It Like It’s Hot
Rooftop bubbly and share plates, then a pottery host at your apartment and two or three small hand-built pieces each, then pizza by the river.
From $449 per person, minimum of six
What’s included
Sydney
Pottery Over Problems
An afternoon making little dishes, earrings and keyrings in a private studio, then hot grazing and bubbly, finishing with a bottle by the water.
From $499 per person, minimum of six
What’s included
Brisbane
Girls Claycation
A studio that’s all yours, the bubbly you brought and a lump of clay each, then share plates under a giant pink flamingo and a nightclub booth with a bottle for the group.
From $449 per person, minimum of six
What’s included
Makers, first timers and the ones who just want to chat.
It works for the friend with a saved folder of pottery videos, and for the one who says she’s not creative and then makes the best piece on the table.
You took the hint from your own search history. Finally, the clay.
Air dry clay doesn’t care. Neither does anyone at the table.
Busy hands, easier talking. Things get said over clay that never come up over coffee.
Flat pack furniture and folding washing don’t count. This one does.
Everyone goes home with something they made beside the birthday girl.
School friends, work friends and somebody’s sister, comparing creatures of uncertain species.
The rest of the weekend, sorted around the table.
Every clay weekend already works on its own. These are the things that sit beautifully beside it, and a few of them can be added to the weekends above.
Same creative afternoon, a canvas instead of clay. Its own weekend in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
More on paint and sipSomething to pick at while the pieces dry. An extra on the Melbourne and Brisbane weekends.
More on grazing deliveredClay under the fingernails, hands in the air. Already in the Brisbane weekend, and an extra on the Melbourne one.
More on nightclub boothsBubbly up high before the clay comes out. Already in the Melbourne weekend.
More on rooftop barsAnother kind of reveal. An extra on the Sydney and Brisbane weekends.
More on tarot readingsTiers and a pot of tea, with your new handmade dish in mind. An extra on the Brisbane weekend.
More on high teaEvery piece reviewed again in daylight. An extra on the Melbourne and Sydney weekends.
More on bottomless brunchA tiny garden instead of a bowl. Its own weekend in Melbourne, Brisbane and on the Gold Coast.
More on terrarium makingPour, scent and set a candle of your own. Its own weekend in Sydney and on the Gold Coast.
More on candle makingThe small things the girls will ask about.
Something that doesn’t mind a bit of clay, and nails you’re happy to get messy.
In Sydney and Brisbane the studio is BYO, with somewhere to keep the drinks cool. In Melbourne the workshop is at your apartment.
Small hand-built pieces: little bowls, dishes, tiny vases, and in Sydney earrings and keyrings too.
Your pieces come home with you. Pack something soft to wrap them in.
In their own words, exactly as written.
I am normally the spreadsheet person.
Colour coding, confirmation numbers, addresses, reminders, who owes what. The lot.
On Saturday afternoon I realised I hadn't looked at my spreadsheet since we arrived.
Growth.
Booked it.
Went.
Loved it.
Already discussing round 2.
My Ultimate has been creating unforgettable girls weekends since 2011, so we know a thing or two about bringing the girls together.
Same clay, a very different weekend.
Plenty of groups book a class and have a great afternoon. Then comes the bit after: where to eat, who’s booking it, the footpath debate between bars and everyone peeling off in separate rides with their wet clay on their laps.
A clay girls weekend with My Ultimate has the apartment, the food, the drinks and where to next already lined up around the workshop, so the creatures get reviewed on the couch, heels in hand, with everyone there.
In your words, ready to paste.
Girls trip idea: a clay weekend. Our own host, a lump of clay each and a few pieces to take home, then dinner and a night out, with somewhere to stay for all of us.
Melbourne and Brisbane from $449pp, Sydney from $499pp. Who’s in?
https://www.myultimate-girls-trip.com.au/clay-pottery-girls-trip
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Where are we going?
Pick your city to see its clay weekend beside every other girls weekend there, prices and all. Found the one? Check your dates.
MelbourneMelbourne girls weekends
SydneySydney girls weekends
BrisbaneBrisbane girls weekends
Gold CoastNo clay and pottery weekend yetSee every Gold Coast girls weekendIn Melbourne you can also compare every art and craft weekend side by side, prices and inclusions on one page.
Know what the girls want? Start a Melbourne girls trip wishlist, or check available dates for your group or call or chat with us on 1300 339 734.
Asked a lot, answered here.
Still deciding? See what pairs well with clay, or pick your city and see the weekends.
None at all. Your host walks everyone through it step by step, and nobody needs to have touched clay before.
The three clay weekends start from $449 per person in Melbourne and Brisbane and $499 in Sydney, with somewhere to stay included, for a minimum of six. Accommodation can cost more on busy dates such as school holidays, so we confirm the price for your exact weekend when you check availability.
No wheels. It’s hand-building: shaping small pieces with your hands and decorating them your way. In Sydney it’s polymer clay, for little dishes, earrings and keyrings.
At your own apartment in Melbourne. In Sydney and Brisbane it’s in a studio just for your group, BYO welcome.
Yes. Two or three small pieces each in Melbourne, up to two in Sydney, and your own piece in Brisbane.
Your own apartment, then food and drinks: a rooftop and pizza by the river in Melbourne, hot grazing and a bottle by the water in Sydney, and a tropical garden bar and a VIP booth in Brisbane.
Clay with My Ultimate comes inside a whole girls weekend, with somewhere to stay. Pick your city to see the weekends in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
All three clay weekends start from six. Fewer than that? Let us know how many of you there are. We cater for groups of many sizes.
A lovely one. Everyone goes home with something they made beside the birthday girl, and she gets the first toast when the pieces go up for inspection.