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Making Pottery

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Making Pottery By James Age 12 Our family hired a man to put in some faucets in our gardens and around the outside of our house. When he dug the trench for  the pipes, he dug up clay. We kids gathered it and made pottery. We added quartz from our rocks and already-fired clay into the wet clay. This is a picture of the gray bowl (which is in the next picture) being fired in our wood burning stove. I made two small bowls out of different kinds of clay. I also made a cup, a pot, a letter stamp for sealing letters with melted wax, and a planting pot for my older sister. I pressed plants on the side of the planting pot so it would look like this. I made a pottery wheel, too. It looks like this: The way I made it is: I flipped a rotating cake stand over, taped a piece of newspaper and a piece of plastic on it as a cover for the hole on the bottom of the stand. Then, I got an Erector Set motor and put a rubber band on t

The Wood Stove

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 The Wood Stove  By Lucy age 9 The four younger kids in our family and our mom were cleaning the place where we put the stuff that we use for fires by the wood stove.   We use paper towel rolls for burning and stuffed some dryer lint in it because dryer lint burns really well.   We stuff it in and then we put some newspaper in on the sides so the dryer lint doesn't fall out.  We do a lot of work to get ready for winter and fall also.  Sometimes we have so much work to do and we don't always get it done.  Sometimes we don't stuff  all the paper towel roles or have to get wood sometimes.   I love the fire because it makes me feel happy and old fashioned.