Rolling and Drying Flat Coasters or Tiles: a Demonstration for Ceramics I

This video is for my Ceramics I students beginning a slab majolica coaster exercise. I cover how to roll an even slab using slab sticks, ribbing the slab, and drying the slab absolutely flat to prevent warping between sheets of drywall (which is edged with duct tape to prevent plaster bits from getting in the clay). I made this video for my Ceramics I students at Mason High School. This is one of the first exercise (non-graded) that the kids do in clay for their semester Ceramics I class. They are learning and building skills they will use throughout the semester. They will learn slab rolling, drying, cleaning edges, majolica glazing, and dip glazing for this exercise. I made the templates out of laminated sheets of tracing/tissue paper for durability to reuse with my classes. We will be learning majolica glazing in this exercise, and it is one of the only items we are doing in earthenware this semester due to the constraints of covid- we will primarily be working in stoneware for the ease of sending home only one clay body with quarantined kids working from home with their clay bins. We will lightly sponge the edges to clean when they are a stiff leatherhard. This video demonstrates how I show the kids to dip glaze the top surface of the coasters to prepare the white base glaze for our majolica glazing: https://youtu.be/9wlGKbRcWzY When I have one prepared to show how to glaze the majolica coasters, I will link here: We are using Standard 103 for this exercise. It is lowfire and grogless red earthenware. It can be sponged- unlike groggy clay. We are using Amaco Velvet Underglazes. Check out my Amazon Influencer Storefront for my suggestion on tools and supplies: https://www.amazon.com/shop/karanspotsandglass For the great tools I used in the video (including the velvet underglazes and brushes) check out this link to a live Googledoc I continually update with lots of my favorite tools on Amazon using my associate links! (Easily searchable with command or control f) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XbYPQjjJnHrQG5xyWGMHZkEcZj5N8VnUAbFZdJRrRmU/edit?usp=sharing I am a public high school ceramics teacher at William Mason High School in Mason, Ohio. (Mason is currently the largest high school in Ohio!) As a potter, I have been working in clay for over 30 years, and I have been teaching for over 28 years, the past 20 have been specifically teaching high school ceramics. I love what I do! I have my own studio in my home basement, where I work on my personal pottery for my Etsy site; https://www.etsy.com/shop/KaransPotsAndGlass