That time of year again...

Clay time! the time of year where the art room fills with dirt and dusk and i will prob. get a stellar cold from all the lovely mold growing on the clay... but this year we have fun stuff going on... details and photos to come...

k-1 Pinch Pots (some 1st are going to make slab birds)
2-3 Slab Birds with added tails
4-5 Pinch Pot animals

The ideas all came from my wonderful blogger friends ... i will add their links to their projects when i get my detailed posts up and going...

Wonderful start so far..... now lets just see if i make it through all the germs and dust...

YEAH FOR CLAY!!

This year for clay projects we created different creatures out of pinch pot forms.   The 2nd and 3rd graders created a Clay Turtle while the 4th and 5th grade kiddos made up their own Clay Dragon.  Both of these projects we painted with Tempera Cakes and then coated in Mod Podge to give them a smooth shiny finish.  The paint simply allowed for more details to be put into the projects.

CLAY DRAGONS 4/5

CLAY TURTLES 2/3

For the lil ones we did a simple clay slab Owl by rolling folding and stamping the clay.  For these we used Glazes to finish them off with a shine.

CLAY OWLS K/1