Saturday 9 July 2016

Year 3S Roman Pottery!

During our trip to Butser Farm, we made clay thumb pots by using the clay they had dug out of the soil. We had to roll the ball of clay around in our hands and pick out any stones or grass that we found. It was a very messy job! We then had to put our thumb into the middle of the ball and make a lovely shaped pot. We then decorated the pot using a feather to design patterns along the sides of the pots. We left them to dry over half term. When we came back, we researched into Roman Pottery and designed a pattern for our pots. We learnt that they didn't use a lot of colour for Roman Pottery. We painted them carefully to include the patterns we had planned. After it had dried, we glazed the pottery to make it shiny. Have a look through the pictures of us holding our Roman Pots!

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