Pinch Pots with a Twist

One of my favorite ways to get kids to think creatively is to get them to look at a familiar object in a new way.  My fourth graders this year took on the age old elementary art staple, the Pinch Pot.  Once they knew the basic method to create the pot, they had to make theirs unique but still functional.

Here are some of the results:

I have been away from my blog for a while (the last post was January) I was busy creating a little pinch pot of my own, our little miss Maya, born 11 Feb 2014.