On Thursday the 22nd of November Year 2DK visited Sanders Secondary School Art department to take part in a clay workshop. Mrs Kavanah showed us several techniques to make simple pots. The first was using a ball of clay to make pinch pots. We then looked at how we could use coils of clay to build pots.
We looked at how we had to smooth the clay together to make sure our pots would be strong. We were then given our own clay and sets of tools to try and make our own pots!
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| Then we used the table to roll our coils |
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| We had to squeeze the clay to make our coils long and even |
We spent a long time making sure our pots would be smooth and well joined so that they would not crack in the kiln.
We had a great time and made some super pots. Mrs Kavanah enjoyed teaching us so much that she has invited us to go back once the pots have been fired to glaze them. Here are our pots beginning to dry out.
