Coil Pots

This project we created coil pots. We started off with a ball of clay, and worked all the air bubbles out of it. After that we took a some of it and made a circular disc for the bottom. After we had made the bottom we started of by making coils. We did this by rolling a section out with our hands till it was long and tubular. After we had a coil made we circled the outside of disc with the coil. We repeated the coil making process and staked them on top of each other until we ran out of clay. Our pots we were required to have a couple of things; a symbol that has meaning in out culture, a primary, and a secondary color. The symbols I used were a red cross on the inside and light blue to meet those objectives.

An extension activity would be to have them research different types of pots we could make and then each student would describe the type of pot they made and what in meant in the past.