1. Pinch Pots

2. Clay Vocabulary Pinch Pinch
Forming a pot by pinching with the fingers and the thumb

3. Clay Vocabulary Types of clay
Stoneware
High fire clay. Fires at 2400’
Earthenware
Low fire clay. Fires at 1800’

4. Clay Vocabulary Body of a Pot
Lip / Rim
The top edge of a pot
Foot
The bottom of a pot
lip
Body
Neck
Foot

5. Clay Vocabulary Slip Score & Slip Clay + Water = Clay glue Liquid Clay
Roughing up the clay and adding slip
For attaching clay together

6. Clay Vocabulary
Texture
The look and feel of an object

7. Clay Vocabulary Stages of Drying
Leather Hard
1st stage of drying
Clay is cold, stiff, and leathery
Greenware
Completely dry pottery (bone dry)
Greenware

8. Clay Vocabulary Firing
Kiln
An oven which fires clay
Bisque ware
Fired, unglazed pottery
Glaze
Glass-former, applied to pottery
Glaze ware

19. PINCH POT CREATURES
By Wanda Powe
Las Cruces, NM Educator

20. CUT SMALL PIECE FROM CLAY FOR ADDING HEAD AND OTHER FEATURES.

21. FORM LARGER PIECE OF CLAY INTO A BALL BEING CAREFUL NOT TO FOLD IN
FORM LARGER PIECE OF CLAY INTO A BALL BEING CAREFUL NOT TO FOLD IN. POUND CORNERS AND EGDES UNTIL RECTANGULAR PRISM FORMS INTO OVAL FORM AND THEN GENTLY ROLL AND SQUEEZE INTO BALL.

22. MAKE PINCH POT KEEPING HOLE AS SMALL AS POSSIBLE.

23. CUT DOWN VERTICALLY AND HORIZONTALLY (LIKE A PLUS SIGN) ABOUT ½ INCH FROM TOP THIS IS TO FORM THE LEGS. IF YOU WANT A FROG OR FISH SKIP THIS STEP THE OPENING CAN BE THE MOUTH OF THE FROG OR FISH.

24. PULL LEGS AND MAKE IT STAND.

25. CUT CLAY FOR HEAD, SAVING WHAT YOU NEED FOR OTHER FEATURES.

26. FORM HEAD AND ADD DETAILS.

27. SCRATCH AREAS TO BE ATTACHED AND ADD WATER. (SCRATCH AND SLIP)

28. ADD HEAD BY TWISTING TO GET OUT AIR BUBBLES AND SMOOTH OUT LINES.

29. ADD OTHER DETAILS WITH THE SAME SCRATCH AND SLIP TECHNIQUE AND PINCHING AND PULLING.

30. DRY AND FIRE!

31. FINISHED PROJECTS