Drat!
He made it on parchment paper so we could just stick it in the oven without having to handle it before it dried.
Maybe if I just turn it upside down on another piece of parchment paper we can transfer it without distorting it too much. (It's fairly thin.) If not, it only took him about an hour to make, so I guess we could start over with a different clay. Thanks for your insight. I really haven't done much with clay before and didn't read the label before buying this.
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ANDREA
GLORY be to God for dappled things---
...
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.
GERARD MANLY HOPKINS