Art is hard, especially when fortified by the flames of a sintering kiln. Make a piece of sturdy ceramic eye candy with today's Groupon: for $10, you get $25 toward pottery painting at It's Yours Pottery.

It's Yours Pottery offers crafters the opportunity to dazzle dinner guests with self-designed tableware. Pay a flat studio fee for all-day access to the design studio's paints, patterns, stencils, and stamps ($8/adult; $5/child 18 and younger), then select one or more pieces from a teetering tower of unadorned bisqueware to deck out in kaleidoscopic luster, subdued earth tones, or a clean-plate design to minimize postmeal washing. Beyond dinner plates ($14.75) and salad surfaces ($11), the achromatic clay pieces range from practical coffee mugs ($10.50) to purely fun animal figurines ($12). After fully smothering your chosen artifact with creative juices, the professional staff will coat it in nontoxic, food-safe glaze and then toss it in a kiln for a coming-of-age ritual involving fire and the removal of all orthodontia. Fired pieces are usually ready for retrieval in less than a week, or the time it takes to sun-bake a lasagna.