We began this piece with a long rectangle slab of clay and created a 3D cylinder shape. We then scored and slipped to close the top of the cylinder. Scrap clay was used to create eyes, beak, wings, feet ect. Finally, clay tools were used to create impressed texture. The pieces were fired, glazed and re-fired. For this lesson idea I was inspired by the clay owls on this website: www.biavatibottegadellestelle.it
My Lesson plan.
We began by looking at a photograph of a fire truck and traced the geometric shapes we could see on the Smartboard. We then used geometric shapes to draw our own fire truck. We outlined with black tempera paint and the second day we painted it with red tempera paint.
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Third grade's learning objective was to create a container. We used clay and the hand building technique of using coils to create the walls of our container. I bisque fired the pieces and then each student glazed their piece, with "exploding glazes". I re-fired the piece to make the pieces shiny and waterproof.
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