1. Card Sort: Making a ‘pinch pot’
1) Take your ball of clay and divide into 2 equal parts
2) Pat out the clay to get rid of any air bubbles – Don’t roll it on your hands
3) Use your thumb to press the centre of the ball and rotate it around your hand
4) Make sure the ‘walls’ of your pot are equal thickness (1cm thick)
5) Repeat for 2nd thumb pot

2. Joining your pinch pot
6) Get a clay tool and start scratching the surface by drawing a criss cross design
7) Use the slip (clay glue) to wet the surface where you have the criss cross design.
8) Take the other pinch pot and place it evenly on top.
9) Use the clay tool to drag the clay near the join up and down to create a join
10) Now smooth the surface
11) Cut the top carefully to reveal the opening

3. New Key Words Relief A raised surface Incise
Make an engraved mark into your surface by carving or cutting.

4. Big picture Recap on how to make a pinch pot and join it.
Recap on clay rules
Recap on key words – relief and incise
Watch demonstration how to apply relief and incision
Review/recap on design sheet for where to add areas of relief and incision
And incise patterns/texture

5. Lesson Outcomes
All will use their design sheet to make sure their decoration is accurate.
All will add at least two areas of relief and two incised areas to their pot.
Most will enhance more than 2 areas of relief and incision marks
Some will produce highly accurate and creative relief shapes and incision marks

6. Clay Rules Do not mess about or throw clay.
Listen carefully to instructions.
Do not touch another persons work.
Do not run around the classroom.
Do not wash your hands until you have
completely cleaned your area.

7. Health and safety Clay dust particles in the air
Silicosis is a form of lung disease caused by breathing in clay dust.
Consider your own and others health when using clay so these instructions MUST be followed:
Wipe your tables with a damp cloth so the dust is soaked up.
Don’t clap your hands together as you will force the dust to circulate into the air you are breathing.
Don’t shake the clay dust from your paper into the bin pour it carefully into your slurry pot so it can be recycled.
Clay particles inside the lungs

8. Relief and Incising
12) Use 2 pieces of wood to roll your clay ball out in between with the roller.
13) Use the knife to cut out the shape for your relief.
14) Use the knife to create a criss-cross design on your clay pot in the shape of your relief.
15) Use the slip (clay glue) to wet the surface where you have the criss cross design.
16) Now smooth the surface along the edge to attach your relief shape to your pot.
17) Use the knife or clay tools to incise your drawing design.

9. Cleaning up routine
Gather up unused clay and pat into a ball to hand in.
Wrap up work in plastic, make sure that it is air tight, label your work (name and class) with masking tape.
Hand in work.
Use your paper to empty dry bits of clay into the slurry pot or bin.
Wipe table down with a damp cloth
Put folders in the middle of the table.
Wash hands when you have been given permission and use the paper towel you use to dry your hands to wipe the table dry