The document provides ideas for clay projects one could make, including coil pots, pinch pot animals, sculptures with textures added, and relief work with pieces added to a flat surface, encouraging the reader to be creative with clay. Scoring and wetting the clay is important to prevent pieces from falling apart during firing in the kiln. A variety of clay project ideas are listed from basic to more unusual designs.

1. Clay ideas
Just some ideasJust some ideas
for things youfor things you
could make withcould make with
your clay –your clay –
remember – BEremember – BE
CREATIVE!CREATIVE!

2. A basic coil pot
(The bottom of the pot can be a slab
- a flat, rolled-out piece of clay-
that's cut into a circle)

3. Score and wet each coil, and then
smooth the insides so that the pot
doesn't fall apart in the kiln!

4. Different designs of coil pots

5. Large coil pots

6. A bit more unusual...

7. More ideas

8. Pinch pot animals
First, score and wet (with slip) on both pots

9. Next, press the 2 pots together.

10. Adding a coil to the join will prevent the form from
splitting in the kiln – again, score and wet

11. Smooth the joining coil so that you
now have a perfect sphere!
Now you can add your cute bug
eyes, and other features.

12. How about a bird? – this one was
made by using 2 triangles for the beak
Remember to poke a hole in his
body, so that the hot air can escape
during firing

13. These fish also started off as 2 pinch pots –
with the mouth as the ventilation hole.

14. This animal was made with solid clay

15. The furry texture is added using any tool, such as a toothpick – you
can try out different tools or objects to create textures and patterns
in your clay sculpture.

16. A crazy coil pot

31. Lastly, you can add pieces to a flat surface
(remembering to s & w of course). This is
called 'relief' work.

32. So now you
know –
'anything
goes' – but just
remember ...