Practical Teaching Tip: Another way to label ceramic glazes

Back in January I created a post called "Practical Teaching Tip: Classroom Organization"  in this post I talked about a way that I have been making sample tiles of the glaze and then gluing them to the top of the jar of glaze. One of the issues I faced with this was that the tiles would fall off (and then I am constantly re-gluing them on the top of the jar).

New Solution: This past week I got a few new underglazes and didn't have time to make sample tiles. What I ended up doing was printing off color pictures of the underglaze from the website and then taping them to the top of the jar. WOW how did I not think of that before? The only issue is that the samples listed on the website for underglaze show the tile with a clear coat on top, so unless the students have seen a piece come out of the kiln without the clear coat they wouldn't know that you have to put a clear coat to make the glaze food safe. However, since I have other sample tiles without the clear coat and the students know about underglaze and its properties, this isn't an issue in my class.

In conclusion, this is definitely an easier way to show the students what the glaze should turn out like, rather than making a sample tile that will probably need to be re-glued a couple times. There is a photo below of my *NEW and UPDATED* Practical Teaching Tip on labeling glazes. Enjoy :)

You can see above the underglazes that have my sample tile (not glossy) and the image printed from the website which shows the underglaze with a clear coat