Boy Scout Merit Badge Requirements

POTTERY

1. Explain the properties and ingredients of a good clay body for pottery.
2. Make two drawings of pottery forms. These are to be on paper at least 8½ by 11 inches. One must be a recognized pottery type. The other must be of your own design.
3. Explain the meaning of the following pottery terms: bat, wedging, throwing, leather dry, bone dry, greenware, bisque, terra-cotta, grog, slip, earthenware, stoneware, porcelain, pyrometric cone, glaze.
4. Do THREE of the following. Each is to be painted, glazed, or otherwise decorated by you:
   1. Make a flat tray or dish.
   2. Make a box, using the slab method.
   3. Make a vase or jar, using the coil method.
   4. Make four different tiles of your own design.
   5. Make a human or animal figurine or decorative design.
   6. Throw a simple vase on a potter's wheel.
   7. Make a pottery form. Help to fire it.
5. Make a rough drawing of a potter's wheel. Tell how it works.
6. Do ONE of the following:
   1. Explain the scope of the ceramic industry in the United States. Tell some of the things made, other than craft pottery.
   2. Visit a pottery, brickyard, ceramic plant, trade school, or workshop. Take notes on how pottery is made. Describe your visit.

BSA Advancement ID#: 87
Source: Boy Scout Requirements, #33215D, revised 2001

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