Clay Vocabulary

What are three basic techniques for forming clay?

• glazing, drying, and decorating

• forming, shaping, and molding

• pinching, coiling, and slab building

the process of forming the clay by pinching it between the fingers to form the pot

• slab

• pinch pot

• coil

• slip

What technique was used to make this pot?

• coil

• pinch

• slab

• magic

The coil building method is when you

• pinch and pull the clay to create something

• make long, snake-like pieces of clay to build up a vessel or object

• make slabs and piece them together

When making a pinch pot, you first have to...

• Make a square

• Roll it into a ball

• Stick your thumb in the center

• Make it flat

What technique was used to build this piece?

• Pottery Wheel

• Pinching

• Coils

• Slabs

Hand-building technique which involves forming flat pieces of clay and connecting them.

• Coil

• Slab

• Pinch

• Kilning

the process of forming a pot from rope-like rolls of clay carefully joined together

• slab

• pinch pot

• coil

• slip

How do you connect two pieces of clay?

• Just stick it together

• Slip and Score and Smear

• Smooth them together

• There is no point in putting clay together

Scratching the edges of the clay to join two parts securely is called:

• wedge

• score

• glaze

• kiln