Pottery with five year olds!

This week in my art class we are learned how to make pinch pots. This seems like an easy task, but with a group of 20 kindergarten students, this can become quite the task. The main thing for me to remember was to keep the walls thick. What would be worse then coming back to a five year old and tell them their pot did not make it through the firing process? I have yet to see how the pots turned out after the fire, but I am sure they look great. Most of the pots looked great! Some of them were too wet, or thin which I decided to help them out by putting supporting clay on the walls because some students need a little help. All in all this project went great, but their were a few hurdles we had to jump for a successful project.