This lesson was taught by Shonda Dargatz and Clarissa Shafer. They started the lesson by introducing us to how pottery was used years ago. The one thing I remember was that it was used to hold grains and corn. We started with a block of clay and kept kneading it so that there wouldn't be any bubbles when we started making the pinch pot. The bubbles would create cracks and possibly make your pinch pot fall apart. Once we had all of the bubbles out the teachers came around and cut our clay in half to see if we had all of the bubbles out. Once they gave us the okay to start, we put our thumbs in the middle and pushed down and formed the edges as we pushed down the middle. Once we had our pinch pot molded, we had to make sure we got all of the cracks out. We could use some watery stuff to help get the cracks out of our pinch pots. After we were done getting the cracks out, we were to use at least two elements of design on our pinch pots. I used lines, patterns, and shapes in my pinch pot.
Activity:
An activity you could do with pinch pots is to have students look up research on pinch pots and see what they can come up with. Have them do a one page paper on the research they found. You could have them present their research to the class, or do a class discussion on what they found.
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