Clay Pinch Pots

For this lesson, we learned about clay and how to make a pinch pot. We were given clay and told to make a clay pinch pot but our pinch pot had to be an animal of our choice. We had to pinch and mold the clay into the shape of our animal. After we created our animal we had to use some extra clay to make additions to our animal. I created a cat and the additions I made with clay were the tail, the eyes, and the ears. Then we had a little pick and we had to make subtractions from our animal and for this I made stripes on my cat and also made the eyeballs, nose, whiskers, and mouth.

An extension activity that would be cool for this is to project is to create an acrostic poem with language arts using the letters of the animal they created and describe their mom with those letters. They could also paint the pinch pot as well; this would be a great mother's day gift with the pinch pot and poem.