WorksheetsClay Vocabulary
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
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
If you leave a large air bubble in your clay, what will happen?
It will melt.
It will dry out in the kiln.
Nothing will happen.
It will explode.
