GLASS & CERAMICS

Pinch Pot Whistles

Pinch Pot Whistles Handout

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Step 1: Find your inspiration

• What do you want your pinch pot whistle to look like?

  • Is it something that you like to eat? Is it your favorite animal? Is it something that is completely made up?​

  • What kind of details will you add to it?​

  • Will the details be made with a slab or a coil?

Step 2: Give your inspiration life

• Draw two thumbnail designs of what your pinch pot might look like.

  • Think about the details!​

  • Please add color the way you want with colored pencils as this will be painted and not glazed.

Step 3: Setting up your whistle

• You will need a pinch pot, a small slab, and a popsicle stick.

  • I will help get these together correctly.​

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Step 4: Assembling your whistle

• Once your whistle base is complete, begin creating other details using slabs, coils, and or slip. 

• You can create all details and then attach or you can attach as you go.

• We will need to make holes to put opposite of the popsicle stick for the whistle to make noise.

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Step 5: Making the whistle blade

• Pinch Pot Whistle will be at leatherhard plasticity when blade is cut.

  • I will help with this process! ​

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Step 6: Painting with Acrylic Paint or Watercolor (stain)

• After whistle has been bisque fired it will be painted with acrylic paint or watercolor.

  • If we use the glaze it might mess with how the whistle blade works.​

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Step 7: Fill out Rubric and Answer Reflection Questions