Pottery Merit Badge
Learn pottery safety, create historical and original designs, work with clay using hand-building and wheel techniques to earn this merit badge.
What you'll do
- Studio Safety Explain to your counselor the precautions that must be followed for the safe use and operation of a potter’s tools, …
- 2. Clay Bodies & Wheels Explain the properties and ingredients of a good clay body for the following:
- Drawing Pottery Forms Make two drawings of pottery forms, each on an 8½-by-11-inch sheet of paper.
- Pottery Vocabulary Explain the meaning of the following pottery terms: bat, wedging, throwing, leather hard, bone dry, greenware, bisque, …
At a glance
- Requirements
- 8
- Category
- Arts and Crafts
- Eagle Required
- No
- Updated
- March 29, 2026