Today Mary Lou helped us make our own pots inspired by the pottery of ancient Greece. We started by taking a rectangle of red clay and shaping it into a ball using only our hands. Then we used our thumbs and fingers to pinch into the clay and create an open space. We added a coil on the bottom for the "foot." Mary Lou taught us that to attach coils you must "scratch to attach" using a special tool and then use water as a type of glue. By adding coils to the top we were able to make our pots taller. Some of us even added an additional coil to create a neck and lip for the pot. The next step is to paint the pots with a black glaze. Then using a sharp tool we will carve our designs into the pots.
Charlie waits to hear to the next step.
Upside down pot - adding the coil to create the foot.
Here you can clearly see the "foot" of AG's pot.
Heather uses the scratching tool to attach her coils.
Carly and Hannah make coils.
Aiden scratches his initials onto the bottom of his pot.
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