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Ceramics vocabulary crossword with pottery terms like kiln, glaze, coil, and wedging.
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Ceramics Vocabulary Crossword

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A 20-clue crossword introducing ceramics terminology for middle school art students. Covers clay stages (plastic, leather-hard, bone-dry), techniques (pinch, coil, slab, wheel throwing), tools (rib, wire cutter), and processes (firing, scoring, wedging, glazing). Use it as a vocabulary review before or after a pottery unit, or as a warm-up for students beginning ceramics instruction.

Subject:
Art
Topic:
Ceramics
Grade Level:
6th – 8th Grades
Updated August 2023

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