He shaped the statue from clay.

Clay

Molding clay.

He fashioned an elegant pot out of clay.

The answer is really basic materials modeling wire, paper, clay, and using something like this is able to make something look like a pair of glasses really quickly.

Or PlayDoh.

It's a tawa.

You know?

And that sugar dough?

And I want to mention that these seals were used for stamping clay tags that were attached to bundles of goods, so it's quite likely that these tags, at least some of them, contain names of merchants.

It's how they, see, have those album things kids don't know what they are.

It's like a wall to the electricity.

So what were these used for?

Mattie. Papa. Uh, this is Mr. Russell.

Sumerian clay stones have been found that date to the fourth millennium BC.

And so I want to do a little demo for you.

It's about the size of a rugby ball.

A small clay column was used for one, a clay ball was used for ten, and a large cone stood for sixty.

We started with a natural occurring clay called montmorillonite.

The heat of the sun hardens clay.

And the Koran says, He speaks to the angels and says,

Now if we can just convince your father. That clay's not too heavy, is it?

This is a clay maker.

He was here when I left.

The Sumerians kept records of business deals using tiny, clay sculptures of goats, donkeys, and oxen.

It could run a metabolism on it.

Tom worked the clay into a vase.

He formed the clay into a bowl.

The colon absorbs water, manufactures vitamins produces mucous, and forms and expels feces

The flood deposited a layer of mud.

In the 19th century,

Town, cattle, part of a mine, territory...

A video?

But wait, this is actually my favorite project.

Now, just let the clay slide between your fingers.

Now, Mr. Russell, if you'll take the clay...

He hardened clay by putting it into a fire.

We began, perhaps 5,000 years ago, with writing.

And we're still trying to keep with the real character.

Mountain ranges, plate tectonics, moves the continents around, forms ore deposits.

How did we search before we had computers?

We work in clay, which hasn't changed much since Michelangelo started screwing around with it, and there's a very interesting analogy to that too.

Bricks consist mostly of clay.

And the reason I was interested in getting water is because water which goes through mines becomes kind of acidic and will start picking up, dissolving the minerals from the mine.

And one day, a couple of weeks later, it might have been maybe a year later, I was in the art store with my kids, and I was buying some clay tools we were going to have a craft day.