Sculpture Lesson Plans

Students create a hanging sculpture from wrapped piping cord or roping. They discuss color palate, and reasons to limit colors. Students discuss color families and contrast, choosing cool colors and a warm color for contrast. They wrap the roping in their choice of yarn colors. Students may add feathers, beads, and pipe cleaners.

Young scholars view the work of Mark di Suvero's scultpture Lao Tzu.  In this sculpture lesson, students recognize that a sculpture is three dimensional and create a three dimensional scultpture.

Students look at pictures of Canstruction sculptures, then read a news article about the construction of these canned food sculptures. In this current events lesson, the teacher introduces the article with pictures of winning sculptures and a vocabulary activity, then students read the news report and participate in a class discussion. Lesson includes interdisciplinary follow-up activities.

Eighth graders examine various 20th century artists and their sculptures. They view and analyze slides, compare/contrast the artists' styles, and create an original sculpture.

Students look carefully at a slide of medieval relief sculpture. They make up a story about what is depicted in a medieval sculpture and draw pictures to illustrate what they have written.

Students are introduced to art at the Huntington Museum. For this art history lesson, students review relief sculptures and Roman Urns. They create their own relief sculpture on a piece of drywall. 

Students construct a free-from sculpture. In this sculpting lesson, students use plaster of paris, a malt cup, and finishing tools to create a sculpture. Students share their finished art pieces.

Students explore heat transforming clay into ceramics. In this making ceramics lesson, students make their own sculptures. Students gain knowledge about clay and what happens when it is heated.

Students create sculptures of a human head with Sculptamold. They discover the differences between two and three dimensional art. They combine art history, aestetics and personal expression to create a sculpture.

Students become familiar with the ancient Chinese beliefs concerning society and the afterlife. In this art lesson plan, students explain the purposes of Chinese tomb sculptures and Chinese bronze vessels and create an animal that is based on the Chinese bronzes and tomb sculptures of ancient China.