How To Make A Pinch Pot

Hey this is Rob at Art4KidsHub.com and I have my awesome kid with me. Chuckers! How's it going bud? Good. Good? Did you have a good day today? Uh huh. Ready to do a video? Uh huh. What are we going to do? We're going to make pots! You're going to make pots? Uh huh. We're going to make a special kind of pot. It's actually called a pinch pot. Does that sound fun? Uh huh. So this pinch pot is a certain type of, it's a certain way of making a pot and first you start out with your clay and you're going to want to roll it into a ball and we already made it into a ball and we're using a certain kind of clay that dries by just leaving it out in the air and it's called Mexican pottery and it's a red kind of color and we just picked this up at Hobby Lobby but you can use any clay for this. You can use Play-Doh, you can use oil based clay that doesn't dry out, you can use homemade clay. Or Moon Dough. Yeah, you can use Moon Dough. But that doesn't even dry out. That doesn't dry out at all. So are you ready to make it? Uh huh. Alright, so pick up your ball. The first step, this is a really easy way to make a pot and it's so easy. All you do is take your ball and you're going to take your thumb, right, and you're going that. Can you make a hole? Push it all the way into the middle. It's kind of hard because it's cold. See if you can get it in there. And then you're just going to start making that hole. You're going to pinch in a circle and you keep turning it around and pinch. So you want to pinch the whole thing. That can help you a little bit. So you want to pinch. Pinch it out and make kind of a bigger hole. Like that. Can you finish going around? Uh huh. And you just keep pinching until you make it into the shape and thickness that you want. Look at that. Look, I'm already almost done. So just keep pinching it. Use your whole hand and you pinch it with these two fingers. Yeah. This clay is a little hard, huh, because you've got to be, you've got to have muscles. Let's see them. Let's see your muscles. Pinch it hard. So I'm just going to keep going. Awesome, Jack. That's so cool. I like the design you put on it. So we just used a pencil, huh, to put little design lines on the side of your pot and on the inside and, but you could use anything that's kind of sharp like a pencil. But once you're done making the pot, then you can design it any way you want. You can put patterns on it. You can put a picture of something. And we've got to make sure that at the bottom you put your name. Sound good? Uh huh. Was that fun? Uh huh. Alright, should we say goodbye to YouTube? Bye YouTube. Bye. Buh-bye. Bye. Goodbye. Zzz-goodbye. Oh yeah. Bye. Oh yeah.