These happy campers are holding their first projects, pinch pot aliens, made at the annual summer Clay Camps for children hosted by Slatestone Studio. The week was spent exploring pinch, coil, slab and thrown on the potters wheel methods of forming clay into fanciful forms. Pictured (from left) are Cooper Evans, Grayson Warren, Gus Vansant, Caroline Boyd, Jada Woolard and Grace Armstrong. Pottery classes for adults resume in September. For more information, contact artist Carolyn Sleeper at 252-945-3541 or carolyn@slatestonestudio.com. If you have a photo that you would like to share in the Daily News, please email it along with a description to yourtake@wdnweb.com. (Submitted Photo/Carolyn Sleeper)