Pinch Pot

Materials:

Pottery Clay

Kiln

Goals:

• To understand the pinch pot making process better to best instruct students

• To experiment with chipping away with the wire clay cutter for texture

• To experiment with creating texture using a pen to create lines and smoothing them out to soften them with my hands

In Progress Images:

1: The clay came pre-wedged so the first step was to roll it into a ball, poke a hole in the inside with my thumb and pinch and shape until walls are formed

2: Create texture and designs

(I will learn about using the kiln this upcoming semester)

 Findings:

• The methods I experimented with didn’t turned out how I thought, I think the wire could create the effect I wanted if I had made my pot thicker 

• I like how the variations in thickness in the rim and walls look. It would be cool if I pushed that effect further on the inside and made the form perfectly smooth and uniform on the outside 

• It's much harder than I thought to make a smooth form

 Application In The Classroom:

• Since it's difficult to create a smooth form lesson plans could center around stamping textures into the clay

• Having led a lesson using with elementary schoolers before, I know cutting the clay into pieces for each kid before class saved me from losing the student's attention. It helped prevent them from waiting, getting bored, and causing disruptions. When I did it the night before it was harder to cut and took longer than I thought. The original reason I cut the clay before class was because I didn't have a wire clay cutter and did NOT want to use a knife or even have one around during class

• Clay takes a surprisingly long time to clean up, even when you already expect it to. Having

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