Questions, answered

We recommend booking ahead to keep a seat for you, as seats are limited. Walk-ins are welcome, subject to availability.

1 to 2 hours. Paint at your own pace.

You can reschedule for free within 30 days of your booking, at the same café, if a slot is free. Refunds aren’t possible. To move your booking, message us on WhatsApp at least 48 hours before your slot. See our cancellation and refund policy.

No. A clay painting session isn’t a group workshop: you get your own table, pick a piece and paint it at your own pace.

The café team gives you everything you need, with an easy guide and a colour-mixing chart. We also have reference sheets you can look through for ideas. There isn’t an artist teaching at a regular clay painting session.

Not at the cafés: anyone can paint. For parties, kids aged 5 and up paint on their own, and younger kids paint with a grown-up.

It’s air-dry clay painting, not wheel pottery. You paint a ready-made clay piece that was shaped by hand at Muskaan. No wheel, no kiln and no experience needed.

Yes. We varnish and box it, and you take it home the same day. Keep it in its box for 24 hours while the varnish dries.

The varnish is still drying. If you open the box too soon, dust and fingerprints can stick to it. After 24 hours it’s sealed and ready for your shelf. See it as a comic →

No. The paint and varnish are not food-safe, so your piece is for decoration only.

Yes! No experience needed. Most people have never painted clay before.

Every piece you paint is shaped by hand by a skilled maker at Muskaan, and every maker is paid for every piece. Meet our makers.

Each person pays for their piece (magnet ₹300, coaster ₹600, trinket tray ₹1,200, specs tray ₹1,500) plus ₹300 cover charge for food and drinks at the café. So a clay date for 2 starts at ₹1,200. At Cafe Cálido on weekends it’s ₹750 per person: ₹300 towards your piece + ₹450 cover charge for food and drinks.

If you booked ahead, the cover charge you paid comes off your café bill as a discount: ₹300 per person, or ₹450 at Cafe Cálido on weekends. Order food and drinks during your clay date and show your booking when you pay.

Yes. The cover charge applies to every clay date, whether you book ahead or walk in.

Yes. We host parties, moulding for groups of 10 or more, and team workshops for 10 to 300 people.

Yes. Parties can be at a café or at your home, and team workshops at a café or at your office. We bring the clay, the tools and a host.

We usually reply within 1 to 2 hours, and for team workshops almost instantly, even for last-minute plans. For an instant quote, call us on +91 82877 70814.

Very soon. Join the list and we’ll email you once, when they’re ready.

Yes. Shipping is free on orders of ₹1,499 and above, and ₹149 below that. Clay date bookings never pay shipping.