2nd Grade Ball Fish-tea or Bird-tea Pots
Possibly 3-4 class periods depending on schedule:
Make 2 pinch pots...put together to make the ball pot.
Add mouth (spout), fins, and tail (handle).
Cut out lid using a dorsal fin as the handle for the top.
Make 2 pinch pots cups with or without handles
Decorate using any textural tools.
Glaze (I used Duncan Envision glazes...non toxic...beautiful colors)
Objectives:
functional art-making a vessel
preplan and execution of plan-sketch and sculpt
repetition of pinch pot skills and control of clay thickness
scoring and the use of slip
connecting two pieces of clay together
decorative art-realistic versus cultural
Saw this lesson somewhere else...thought it was great and adapted it for my
classes and instructional techniques.
Produces great results...the Fish-tea Pots were something else to see
These were small and most held only enough tea for a teaspoon per cup but
what fun.
My basic clay skill building projects were 1st-pinch pot, 2nd-ball pot,
3rd-coil pot, 4th-slab pot, and 5th was a DBAE unit in which the students
could apply any of the skills learned in the previous 4 years. It took simple
review to stir the creative juices. Any new students without the step by step
process were taught the coil method.
Other projects:
Coil drawing
porcelain pins
animal sculptures
simple series
reliefs
tiles
