 Hi, during these trying times of the pandemic, the City of Columbia Parks and Recreation Department realizes that choices can be limited in enhancing one's physical, social, and mental well-being. The Parks and Recreation staff have been involved in developing a number of videos in which citizens can participate in and enjoy in the privacy of their own home. These videos consist of arts and crafts, gardening, physical activity, and sports instruction, with many more to come as we work through this pandemic. Our videos will be available to you on a number of our social media outlets. We hope you enjoy and thank you very much. Today we're going to be showing you how to make garden markers. We're going to do about three methods. They're very simple. And I'm using earthenware or stoneware clay. If you don't have that, you can use air-dry clay. And then with the air-dry clay, you can paint it with acrylic and spray it and it'll be durable outside. I'm using a rolling pin to make sure my clay is smooth and rolled out. And then right now I'm going to take a ruler and I'm using a skewer stick instead of a knife so that way kids won't have to borrow sharp instruments. Okay, now as you can see I've got a slab here. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to use my ruler again and I'm just going to cut it off right here and then make a point and do that way, that way. And I think that this time of year, zinnias grow real good. So we're going to make this our zinniamarker. Hey, what I'm doing is I'm just taking my fingers and smoothing this clay down because once it gets hard, if you have any rough edges on it, that's going to cut your fingers. Now once this is fired, I can paint it and just stick it in the ground. Another way you can make your little clay markers are get fine to cookie cutter. Cookie cutters are always fun to work with. So I'm going to put that indent in but I've got to make, I can't pull it out yet because I've got to make a tail on it. So what I'm going to do is to take my skewer again and make a tail on it. The air dry clay is real easy to work with. You don't have to fire the clay to make them good. I'm smoothing things out now. By the way, my clay, when I rolled it with my rolling pin, I made it one quarter of an inch. That way when you engrave on them, it allows room that you can add texture to them or things if you want to. We'll do petunia. So we've got two types. Just one went done with a ruler and the other one I took a cookie cutter. Once they're fired and hard, then you can paint them, glaze them. If it's air dry clay, as soon as it's dry, you can paint it with acrylic paint and then get a clear spray and spray them and now make them good for the outside. You can get air dry clay at many hobby shops in town. And that's all there is to making your garden markers. So go have some fun.