Activities

• Develop the basic skills of ceramics:

  hand building

  throwing

  glazing

  tiring.

• Learn to play chess.
• Draw chess-set designs with a particular theme in mind:

  indigenous human population

  animals

  genealogical

  historical

  village politics.

• Complete the design with a color scheme and three-side view drawings.
• Hand build the pieces, glaze, and fire.
• Build molds for the pieces if you have an interest in marketing.

Resources

• a chess player
• a potter
• clay, glazes, and a kiln (make the kiln)

Variations

• Make sets from ivory, bone, baleen, soapstone, or any combination.
• Make cribbage boards.