🎃 2025 Halloween Pottery Contest at The Clay Hole 👻

Make a Haunted House Lantern or a Haunted Halloween Ship — and Win Big!

It’s time to conjure up your most hauntingly creative work yet. For our 2025 Halloween Pottery Contest, we’re calling on all members to sculpt either a Haunted House Lantern or a Haunted Halloween Ship. Make it spooky, make it weird, make it magical — the only rule is to make it your own.

🏆 What You Could Win:

  • One free month of pottery at The Clay Hole (if we reach at least 15 entries total)
  • Free firing of your contest piece — up to one haunted house and one haunted ship
  • A feature on our social media, with nearly 3 million followers tuned in
  • Eternal glory (or at least seasonal bragging rights)

🧙‍♀️ How It Works:

  • Make a Haunted House Lantern or a Haunted Halloween Ship (or both!)
  • Embellish them however you’d like — ghosts, pumpkins, spiderwebs, gravestones, sails, chimneys, creepy eyes, whatever!
  • Deadline to enter your finished piece is September 30th, 2025
  • We need at least 15 entries total to award the grand prize — so tell your friends at The Clay Hole to join you!

🕯 Haunted House Lanterns

Build a ceramic haunted house and make it glow. Spooky windows, warped rooftops, chimneys, witches' brooms, and glowing doorways make these Halloween lanterns one of the most fun projects of the season. No two haunted houses will be the same, and that’s the point — bring your weirdest ideas to life and let the eerie glow do the rest.

🏚️ Haunted Halloween/Ghost Ships

Haunted pirate ships, witchy vessels, and spooky ghost flotillas await. Create a Halloween-themed ship with sails, carved jack-o'-lanterns, ghosts, sea monsters, or anything else your wild brain can dream up. From cute to creepy, your handmade ceramic ship will set the spooky seas sailing.

⚠️ Important Notes:

  • Only finished, fired pieces will be eligible
  • Must be submitted to studio staff by September 30th October 7th (contest was extended)
  • You may enter one haunted house, one haunted ship, or both
  • No entry fee. No firing fee. Just pure Halloween pottery fun.

🧛‍♂️ Ready to Craft Something Wicked?

Get spooky. Get detailed. Get weird. Whether you’re summoning ghouls, building crooked towers, or sailing the spectral seas, this contest is your time to shine (or flicker ominously). Let your imagination run wild — and who knows? You might just win a free month of pottery and a whole lot of glory.