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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
Dont roll it on your hands
3) Use your thumb to press the centre of the ball
and rotate it around your hand

• 5) Repeat for 2nd thumb pot

4) Make sure the walls of your pot are equal
thickness (1cm thick)
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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.
11) Cut the top carefully to reveal the opening
9) Use the clay tool to drag the clay near the
join up and down to create a join
10) Now smooth the surface
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New Key Words

• Relief
• A raised surface
• Incise
• Make an engraved mark into your surface by
  carving or cutting.

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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

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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

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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.

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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.
• Dont clap your hands together as you will force
  the dust to circulate into the air you are
  breathing.
• Dont 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
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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.
17) Use the knife or clay tools to incise your
drawing design.
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.
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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