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Sgraffito With Clay and Underglazes
Learners create a ceramicpiece by using the sgraffito technique. In this ceramics lesson, students use clay to create a shape of a mask. Learners add an underglaze to the mask and applies the sgraffito technique to create designs.
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Digital Mitosis and Claymation
Take mitosis and meiosis out of the biology textbook and onto the screen! An innovative class project prompts young biologists to create an animation movie using clay, showing the phases involved in mitosis or meiosis by moving the...
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Cast Handmade Paper
Upper graders make cast handmade paper. This is another beautifully-designed art lesson from this source which will produce fabulous results. The process behind the paper making is relatively simple. The challenge is securing all of the...
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Humourous Head Planter Spike: Ceramics Lesson
What a great activity. Kids create humorous ceramic character (heads) spikes to enliven a planter. Modern art is full of expressive and exaggerated forms and your class gets to create them out of clay. This would be a lovely activity to...
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Horse Character: Ceramics Lesson
Animals oftentimes elicit various characteristics which make them symbolic or representative of human feeling, action, or emotion. The class creates horse characters out of clay to show character action and symbolism. This is a great...
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Nature - animals in environment
Seventh graders observe and draw animals in their environment. They also examine the work of other artists. They choose one animal and create a clay model of it in its environment.
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Clay Gargoyles
Students observe Gargoyles and listen to an explanation of their place in art history. They create gargoyles with clay and paint with stone finish.
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Crayola® Model Magic® Colored Courtly Characters
Young scholars create a "Noh"-style mask, based on Japanese Noh theatre masks. They experiment with different colors of modeling clay and explore ways to show facial character.
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Crayola Model Magic Fantastic Fantasy Creatures
Learners discuss and describe fantasy creatures such as the centaur, mermaid, dragon, Pegasus, griffin, etc. They create a sculpture of a fantasy creature using clothes hangers, newspaper, and Crayola?? Model Magic™.
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"Found Objects Sculptures"
Drawing and sculpting have two things in common, observation and skill. Build skills in creating artistic representations of found objects. Children can bring in any found item as their inspiration. They will pencil sketch the object,...
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Self Portrait Pots
learners 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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Magical Courtly Structure
Students engage in a instructional activity that is concerned with the creation of a model that is focused upon the theme of an imaginary world. They work in groups to create a magical and courtly structure using modeling clay. Then...
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Pottery Traditions
As part of their study of Native American pottery traditions, class member try their hand at crafting and decorating a clay pot
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Here's My Family
Family traditions help to instill personal values, social norms, and the warmest of childhood memories. Elementary and secondary learners share their favorite family traditions with a fun diorama project. Using modeling clay, they create...
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Creating a Bas-Relief Sculpture
Young scholars create a small bas-relief sculpture of an animal in clay. They roll out a background, and build up the clay on the back ground to represent themselves and an animal. Pieces are dried and fired, then combined with others to...
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Octopus Project: Ceramics
Kids make an octopus out of clay. They practice their sculpting and modeling skills such as pinch pot and slurry technique while sculpting an octopus.
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Ocean Life
Third graders create an ocean fish environment. In this ocean life lesson, 3rd graders create an ocean environment from clay. Students paint their sculptures with realistic colors emphasizing contrast, texture, and patterns.
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Camouflage: A Study of Stealth and Survival
Students study insect camouflage. In this organisms lesson plan, students design and create their own 3D insect models to blend into a habitat. Students write a paragraph about the camouflage their insect has and explain how their insect...
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Elementary Art Curriculum Guide
Get crafting with hundreds of pages of art lessons! The plans are organized into topics, which include clay, drawing, composition and design, mixed media, painting, printmaking, and paper.
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Building a Model Springbox
Students examine ways to protect fresh drinking water. In this clean drinking water lesson, students listen to the story of Lauren Fry about building a springbox to collect groundwater. Students build a springbox.
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Keepsake Handprints
Students spread out model magic on a plate. In this art lesson, students press their hand into the model magic to make an impression in the clay. Students let it dry for at least 24 hours and then paint the handprint. Students enjoy...
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Looking at Portraits: Literary Monuments
Examine artwork, research literature, and create art pieces for a monument to a literary figure. Young scholars analyze the sculpture Model for a Monument to Alexandre Dumas père and compare it to other well-known monuments. They...
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Dark and Beautiful Caves
Young scholars research how caves form. They describe the major stone formations in caves by taking notes. They construct a clay model of a cave and mark each formation making it easy to identify in the legend.
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Model Community
Students explore what it means to create miniature models, and apply what they create a miniature version of their local community for a class exhibit. They write artist statements explaining their models.
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