3rd grade Coil Pots

Third grade artists learned about coil pots and how they have been used for thousands of years as containers for food and drink. The advantage of a coil pot over a pinch pot is that a coil pot is not limited in size. They can made quite large by adding coils on top of coils, while working to blend each coil into the previous coil. Some artists choose to leave to the coil, or rope like designs; others choose to smooth them out. Our coil pots had to change shape, thick to thin, thin to thick and had to feature tow of the different methods of creating coils we learned about-- simple ropes, or zig zags, or spirals or even just dots. After the coil pots were fired, we glazed them using two different colors of glaze, making sure we used three coats of glaze to ensure a clean, shiny, bright finish. The below photos are some examples of student work from all four third grade classes.