1. Clay Whistles

2. Ocarina
The ocarina is an ancient flute-like wind instrument The body of the flute is an enclosed space with four to twelve finger holes and a mouth tube projecting out from the body. It is often ceramic, but many other materials, such as plastic, wood, glass and metal may also be used.

3. History of the Ocarina
The ocarina is a very old family of instruments, believed to date back some 12,000 years. Ocarina-type instruments have been of particular importance in Chinese and Mesoamerican cultures.
Chinese used the Ocarina for Song and Dance
Europe used the Ocarina for the introductions of Judges to the Court
The word ocarina is derived from Italian meaning "little goose."
After featuring in the Nintendo Legend of Zelda games, the ocarina attracted a marked increase in interest, and a dramatic rise in sales.

4. Utilitarian vs. Decoration
Which one of these can you use?
Which one of these items sits on your table for decoration?

5. Clay Whistle Examples
The Dragon Fly
The Fish

6. Clay Whistle Examples continued…
Family of Turtles
A Bird

7. Student made Get Ideas

8. Sketch out Pottery Ideas
All artists sketch out ideas before starting a new idea
It speeds up making the bowl because clay dries very fast

9. four states of clay:  
Plastic: clay that is soft, pliable and easy to work with.
Leather Hard: clay that has been allowed to dry slightly, making it stiffer and able to support its weight, but can still be worked on and have parts attached.
Bone Dry: clay at its most fragile state, can not be worked on at this stage
Bisque: the first firing for the clay, removes all of the water, (both actual and chemical) and carbon, The fusing of the particles has begun, yet the clay is still porous to allow for glaze absorption. It can no longer be slaked down and recycled

10. How to Make a Clay Whistle
Start with two ball of plastic like clay
A bowl of water
A stylist tool
A paint brush

11. Make a Pinch Pot
This is a hand building process starting with a ball of clay, inserting your thumb and "pinching" the clay between your thumb and fingers, gradually expanding and shaping the wall into a bowl-like form.

12. Pinch a second Bowl
Make sure one bowl has a nib on the end

13. Finished Pinch Pots

14. Merge Pots Put the two pots together
Make sure they fit or match in shape and size

15. Slip and Score
The method for joining pieces of clay where the two surfaces are scratched up and slip is added like a "glue" to create a strong, melded bond. It is an essential step in ceramic construction, because clay will stick to itself when wet, but when will fall apart after bisque when all the water is removed. Texturing the surface gives the clay some grip, almost like Velcro.

16. Score the Lip of Each Pinch Pot

17. Add Water or Slip to the Scored Lips

18. Put the two Pinch Pots Together

19. The Shape can be Altered by Paddling and Molding

20. Making the Whistle Mechanism
You will need 2 sticks
Put the first stick in the nib horizontally all the way to the end of the body

21. First take the second stick and make a square incision between the body and the nib
Second create a 45 degree angle on square incision

22. Your whistle should look like this

23. Add Animal Features Neck Head Tail, Fins, Beak Legs and Feet Eyes Nose
Mouth
Ears
Tail, Fins, Beak
Legs and Feet

24. Think About Design Quality
How do you want to decorate your whistle?

25. Texture
Add texture in the
Leather Hard drying stage of clay.
Use tools to make texture and designs
Sgraffito - This comes the Italian word meaning "scratched through" and is done by incising or
cutting a design through a colored slip coating to reveal the clay body.

26. Time to Dry to the Bone
Next it goes into the Kiln

27. Kiln
A furnace that use electricity, gas or wood, but may also be fired using coal, oil, manure or even old tires.
Is used to Fire the clay till it hardens to a stone like form.

28. Paint Yourself Silly
Glaze – A mix of chemicals and minerals when heated to a really hot temperature melt together and form a glass like color coating on the outside of clay objects.

29. Objectives
Objective #2:Students will learn to pinch, join, shape, design, glaze or paint a clay whistle. They will choose animal features using their own thumbnail sketch ideas.
Objective #3:Students will consider what importance music and animal have on our culture.