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Dick Blick Art Materials

No-Fire Nouveau Tiles

For Teachers K - 12th
Kiln-glazed ceramics not an option? Kids can create their own art nouveau tiles using ceramic bisque tiles. The packet includes a video to prepare and inspire your artists, as well as detailed directions for various age groups, a...
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Dig This Dinosaur Relief Lesson

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students create low-fire ceramic relief sculptures of dinosaur bones. They incorporate art history, aesthetics, and criticism with hands on activity. Students work together to draw an enlarged skeleton on butcher paper. The Stegosaurus...
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Recreating Chinese Bronze Vessels

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers are shown how to make Chinese Bronze Vessels using coil or slab-built clay ceramic techniques. They are given an overview of the history of Chinese Bronze Vessels and given examples. Students are shown photographs, and...
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AMACO Gloss Decorating Colors... "Majolica GDC's"

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students use different techniques to apply a decorating gloss. In this informative handout, students are introduced to various techniques for applying Gloss Decorating Colors for Bisque and Majolica.
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Dig This

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the work of paleontologists and the life of dinosaurs and create a sculpture of the bones of a Stegosaurus. The sculpture was then buried and used by other classes for a dig.
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American Art Clay Co., Inc.

Ceramic Tile Wall Murals

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th Standards
Science, social studies, language arts, and art classes work together with administrators to produce a permanent, ceramic tile wall mural to install at their school. 
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Lee County High School

Clay Animal Whistles

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Investigate North Carolina pottery history by creating clay animal whistles, a traditional leisure activity in the region. They research a particular animal and jot down its attributes to include in their project. Find step-by-step...
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Clowing Around: Ceramics

For Teachers K - 8th
Clowns are a big hit with kids! Explore a few circus related websites to get an idea of how clowns look and what they do. They then build sculpting skills by creating expressive clown faces out of clay. Web links, materials list, and...
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Coil Vessels with Symbols

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore symbolism in Renaissance art, use ceramics vocabulary, and demonstrate craftsmanship in working with clay.
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This Ain't No Tea Party!

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Create food-safe bowls with your class, then organize a meal for the community using the class's bowls to serve. This lesson is based on the Empty Bowels Project, where school kids gain an understanding of global hunger through community...
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AMCO

Whimsical Figures

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Clay is a wonderful and expressive medium for learners of any age. Kids get creative as they make whimsical figures out of clay. A hyperlinked materials list, images of each step in the process, and helpful tips makes this a great art...
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Making a Basic Clay Animal Sculpture In-The-Round

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students create a three dimensional animal sculpture. In this sculpting lesson, students use white art clay, gloss glaze, brushes, and wooden tools to create an animal sculpture.
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Little Oyster: Ceramic Lesson

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Children will love researching and then creating a bottom dwelling mollusk of their own. They watch clips describing the ocean ecosystem and how oysters fit into their environment. Next, they research what oysters eat and how they look....
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Hawaiʻi State Department of Education

Clay Creatures

For Teachers 1st
When little ones make things out of clay they're not just exercising their creativity, they are following directions, developing fine motor skills, and building a sense of pride in their work. First graders use the pinch-and-score...
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Houses, Beach Shacks and Cultural Habitats

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students create a unique habitat by applying the methods of hand building. They draw their idea in their sketchbook. They create the form with expressive variations. They create the decorations using glazes, underglass, stamps and...
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Ceramic Relief Portrait

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders use draped slab and slab method to create a relief sculpture, adding coil and slab decoration. They study facial features and form them in clay. They study symbolism in Renaissance relief terra cottas.
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Ceramic Owls

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students creat owls through the use of slabs of clay with pinched beak and tufts. They use a clay tool or nail to add shape to mak wings. Students use shells, and other items to create texture. After the creations have dried, students...
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Create a Flock of Birds One Pinch at a Time

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students create Mexican Pottery Clay project. For this natural history/art lesson students construct their own clay bird. Students make connections between visual arts and reading to follow directions. Students also reflect on the...
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Facial Studies Through Creation of a Face Jug

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers study facial expressions and create a face jug. In this facial study lesson, students look at images of face jugs through history before drawing thumbnails of facial images. They use the coil method to make a jug, and...
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Self Portrait Pots

For Teachers 4th - 8th
students create a self-portrait bust while demonstrating craftmanship in forming clay and glazing/underglazing. After the correct procedures are demonstrated, students create their own self-portrait bust.
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Pablo Picasso - Slab Construction

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners create a three or four-sided vessel incorporating abstracted faces on each side. Vessels should be irregular in shape. They demonstrate skills and craftsmanship in working with clay and explore hand-building methods of construction
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Clay Whistle/Ocarinas

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders create a clay whistle/ocarina and sculptue in the round using the pinch technique.
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A New Approach to Developing Images on Clay

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners make story telling plates or tiles based on David Stabely's technique. They are shown slides of original work contemporary artists who are using nontraditional approaches to the clay surface. Students are shown work that David...
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Overglaze Decoration on Tile

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore majolica.  In this art and history lesson, students glaze and decorate pottery using the decorative ceramic technique of Majolica.  Students discuss visual arts and make connections with history.

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