Creative Wheel Throwing Pottery Class in Coromandel
Overview
Driving Creek’s pottery classes offer an authentic, hands-on creative experience in one of New Zealand’s most iconic pottery settings. Built on the legacy of Barry Brickell and a thriving community of local artists, these workshops invite you to slow down, connect, and create with clay surrounded by native forest.
Whether you’re a first-timer or an experienced potter, you’ll learn real techniques in a working studio that continues to inspire generations of makers. Every class directly supports Driving Creek’s not-for-profit mission to nurture creativity, art, and the environment.
What's Included
- Clay
- Optional add-on glaze, fire and delivery of your work
- Apron to keep your clothes clean
- Pottery Wheel
- Professional and help tutor
Meeting Location
380 Driving Creek Road
Coromandel 3506, New Zealand
Detailed check-in instructions, including the exact address, are provided with your booking confirmation.
This activity ends back at the meeting point.
What To Expect
Join us for a creative 1.5-hour pottery class where creativity meets craftsmanship. Guided by a professional potter, you'll get hands-on experience with wheel throwing.
We provide everything you need for a seamless pottery experience. From 100% New Zealand stoneware clay to the potter's wheel, and even aprons to keep your clothes spot-free, we ensure you have all the essentials. As you shape and mould your unique creations, you'll feel the clay transform under your fingertips, a truly magical process.
After crafting your pottery pieces, you have the option to have them glazed, fired and delivered to your home for an additional cost. Choose from a variety of colours to add a personal touch to your work and keep them for your everyday use.
Whether you're a beginner eager to learn the basics or an experienced potter needing a creative outlet, our pottery class is the perfect setting to explore the craft of pottery.
Join us and turn a lump of clay into something extraordinary!
We supply all the clay, the wheel, and aprons to keep your clothes clean! You also get the opportunity to have your works glazed, fired and delivered with a variety of colours at an additional cost!
Additional Info
- Confirmation is instant and will be received at time of booking
- Wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 6 travelers
Frequently Asked Questions (7)
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Frequently Asked Questions (7)
The answers provided below were previously given in response to questions from Cool Destinations customers.
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- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the tour start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the tour start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the tour start time will not be accepted.
- Cut-off times are based on the tour local time (NZDT).
- Clay.
- Optional add-on glaze, fire and delivery of your work.
- Apron to keep your clothes clean.
- Pottery Wheel.
- Professional and help tutor.
The minimum age to participate is 17..
Apr 2025If a date or time is not listed on the calendar, it’s sold out or unavailable for another reason. Support cannot assist further if a date or time is not on the calendar.
If you find a date and time that works for you, book it NOW because things always sell out at this time of year.
Apr 2025Accessibility information for the Creative Wheel Throwing Pottery Class in Coromandel is as follows:
- Wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Detailed check-in instructions – including meeting point address, Google map, and parking information – for Creative Wheel Throwing Pottery Class in Coromandel will be included in your confirmation email from Cool Destinations. Please be sure to double and triple check your email address is correct at checkout so this important email makes its way to you!
Mar 2024Once your refund is processed, it usually shows on your card statement within 5–10 business days. The exact timing depends on your bank or card issuer.
Want it sooner? When you cancel, choose Receive a refund to my wallet instead. The credit is in your Wallet straight away and is applied automatically at checkout on your next booking when you’re signed in with the same email. You can see your balance any time in My Wallet.
If you paid part of your booking with Wallet credit, that part always goes back to your Wallet. Trip protection isn’t refundable.
Oct 2026What's Included
- Clay
- Optional add-on glaze, fire and delivery of your work
- Apron to keep your clothes clean
- Pottery Wheel
- Professional and help tutor
Additional Info
- Confirmation is instant and will be received at time of booking
- Wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 6 travelers
- Operated by a business
