Ceramic Tools & Safety

3. Used to pull through large lumps of clay, separating them into smaller sections.
5. PPE that covers your clothing.
6. Used for scoring slabs and coils when you're hand-building pieces. It can also poke small holes into closed sculptures to allow air inside.
8. $25 fee that supports maintaining the classroom materials like tools and clay.
9. 30% of your grade.
12. A flexible tool that is used to smooth and get rid of air bubbles. It also compresses the clay.
13. A flat wooden tool used to smooth clay. It also compresses clay to get rid of air bubbles.
14. Used to cut small pieces of clay.
15. PPE that covers your nose and mouth.

1. Used to trim or refine shape and control wall thickness on greenware. Removes a significantly large amount of clay.
2. 70% of your grade.
4. Used for smoothing, shaping and finishing pottery pieces. Good for sculpting.
7. Use to trim or refine shape and control wall thickness.
8. Used to clean up your workspace, make the surface of your pottery smooth, clean up extra water that's sitting in and around your piece, and decorate with
10. A dust that is dangerous to inhale; causes cancer. It is an ingredient in clay.
11. PPE that covers your eyes.
12. The teachers name.
16. A large oven that fires or "cooks" the pottery.