The document discusses the process of making beads out of clay with seniors at two community centers. It describes how playing with clay allowed the seniors to engage in creativity and brought back happy memories of their childhoods. Various techniques are outlined for shaping the clay beads, from coils to pressed discs. The document provides a list of supplies needed for the clay bead making process and firing the finished beads.

1. According to Tom Robbins “It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.”

48. These disc beads were all made with nichrome wire hanging loops.

72. Musings on my classes at the Lutheran Settlement House and Neumann Center located in Philadelphia’s Fishtown area, May 2009.

73. (A detailed list of supplies and firing suggestions follows.)