Clay art projects elementary

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These adorable clay aquariums and terrariums have been a welcome change to my 3rd grade clay curriculum - everyone really loves them! This lesson was inspired by a post at johnpost.us - a cute clay fishbowl. It provided us the opportunity to work with rolling clay slabs, coiling, modeling, and joining clay as well as surface texture and glazing. The first week, we discussed the differences & similarities in aquariums and terrariums, and rolled our slabs. We used a bowl as our "tracer" to get…

One of the 5th grade artists that we now study in Hudsonville Public Schools is Dale Chihuly a living American glass artist. It is fun for all of us to look at his unique artwork! Students learned a

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

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.

How to teach clay is a common question. I offer tips, tricks and lessons for having a successful clay day.

3rd time’s the charm for these! I learned so much from our first try at clay cupcakes, and even more making Cupcakes 2.0. Cupcakes 3.0 are gonna be adorable and have all the sprinkle headache…

A simple and brilliant idea to be realized at school with clay slabs: colored tiles imprinted with different shapes of pasta. Farfalle, penne, fusilli or spaghetti become interesting tools to creat…