This workshop encourages students to think about how pottery was made and decorated in the past. They will be in-troduced to the idea that in the Bronze Age pottery was decorated by making impressions into the clay using natural materials. If there is the opportunity, students will be allowed ten minutes to go outside and gather their own collection of materials to use, for example, fir cones, acorns, twigs and feathers (otherwise these will be provided). They will then be given a tennis ball-sized piece of air-dry clay with which to make their own thumb or coil pots and experiment with various techniques with which to decorate them using only the natural materials. Students can take their pots home.
This is a good follow-on workshop to the ‘Kidz Digz’ where students will have found broken pottery from the last 2000 years.
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