Few things can catch a snack thief red-handed as efficiently as a freshly painted crimson cookie jar. Keep track of your sweet stock with today’s Groupon: for $13, you get a two-piece pottery-painting package at Ceramic Cafe in Leawood (up to a $31.50 total value). The package includes:

• Studio fee for one adult (a $7.50 value) or one child (a $4.50 value)
• Two pieces of pottery to paint. Mix and match the following options:
• 12-ounce mug (an $8.50 value each)
• 8-inch coupe plate (a $9 value each)
• 8-inch rim plate (a $12 value each)<p>

Ceramic Cafe arms artists of all ages with the artistic instruments necessary to transform unfinished earthenware into pottery masterpieces. Guests can adorn two 12-ounce mugs, two 8-inch round plates, or one mug and one plate in more than 60 different colors of nontoxic ceramic glazes that will not flake off and add unwanted seasoning to swordfish-casserole dishes. Idea books, stencils, sponges, and stamps supply sources of artistic inspiration, and staff members stand by to demonstrate techniques, or to pose for a mug-side replica of Whistler’s Mother. The studio fires pieces in its kiln to ensure designs are food safe and long lasting, and customers can retrieve their work the following week.