Glass provides a resting place for wine, eveningwear for Cinderellas, and a more dramatic exit from 44th-floor windows for Bruce Willises. Shatter artistic inhibitions with today's Groupon: for $75, you get a two-hour glass-blowing, glass-fusing, or flame-working class for two at Neusole Glassworks (a $150 value).

Expert instructors at Neusole Glassworks guide students of all experience levels through a variety of glass-forging techniques within their public-access studio. The studio provides equipment and materials to ensure students are spared the inconvenience of melting down their collection of glass eyeballs. Students can opt for a lesson in glass-blowing to sculpt molten glass with a blowpipe, or shift the focus to glass-fusing to mold and manipulate glass inside a kiln. The flame-working class allows artists to emblazon glass with complex designs or subtle mantras explaining why glass kicks plastic's assets.