Today we're going to make a simple punch pot that can fit around your thumb and you can use this as a basis to create an animal. A lot of times I've had people make the owl or a fish with it. I'm going to start by cupping my hands and kind of rolling it into a ball and it doesn't have to be perfect. I'm going to press my thumb in and as I'm pressing I'm going to turn and I'm going to use these fingers to pinch in and I'm slowly opening up that space and it's kind of going around my thumb. I'm going to go down until it's right below my knuckle and you can see how well opened up that is and the walls of this pot right here are very evenly spaced. There isn't like a fat part and a thin part. Everything is very uniformed the same. I'm also going to kind of smush my thumb around here to compress that clay and I can kind of smooth it out like this so that I don't have any bumps. If you smooth too long it actually will dry it out and make it crack. For when I make owls I just kind of go like this and it gives it a flat bottom. If I make a fish we go like that and this becomes the mouth of the fish.