Clay lesson plans

Answer the call of the wild while sculpting with Activ-Low Fire Clay (formerly known as Blackjack Low-Fire Clay)! This Little Howlers lesson plan from our friend Ruthie Post at Little Budding Artist is an excellent way to introduce students to clay terminology and process.

This expressive clay portrait lesson is a great way to get your students thinking creatively while learning the basics of working with clay.

Clay can be the best and worst thing to happen in an art room. It can be a magical and intense experience for both the students and the art teacher. Once students get over the messy aspect of clay, they are completely mesmerized by the tactile and time consuming process. The illusive kiln, the obsessive smoothing, the endless need to score and slip…. I LOVE …

Animal pinch pots are a fun clay lesson for older kids and middle school students. Build a clay elephant with step-by-step instructions.

Carve and paint beautiful clay relief tiles with air drying clay. This is clay project for kids is a great one to make together with a caregiver.

This is a perfect slab lesson for artists will a little prior clay experience. How to use simple steps to create a clay animal face of your choice while applying slip and score to attach all clay pieces together. Perfect slab clay lesson for artists will a little prior clay experience.

This subtractive clay bust is an awesome high school ceramics lesson that helps students explore figurative art, personal expression and a variety of handbuilding techniques.

I put together a booklet for the staff of the primary school I work in. They were wanting to learn about clay and some ideas of what they...

I'm getting ready to post about my new clay projects and thought I would share a project I picked up last fall at a workshop offered at KSDE called Adapting the Visual Arts for Special Needs Students. The process is very simple: 1. Roll clay into balls 2. Line bowl* with plastic, line plastic with clay balls (one layer that fills in all the gaps) 3. Smooth seams between the balls 4. When smooth, let dry 5. Paint! I used this lesson with several of my primary students this year. I have a lot…

​What are the required steps in order to make a ceramic pottery artwork? Why is it important to know the terms, tools and steps in order to be successful?