Clay lesson

This is a poster for you to print for your art room. It explains the 6 stages that clay needs to pass through in order to become a piece of ceramic sculpture.Print to a size of your preference and display in your clay centre / area.Here are also some preview pages of clay lessons that you may like to use with your students. Click on a thumbnail and learn more about each lesson in the store.All our art lessons are highly detailed, with set-by-step instructions and heaps of coloured…

A simple and brilliant idea to be realized at school with clay slabs: colored tiles imprinted with different shapes of pasta. Farfalle, penne, fusilli or spaghetti become interesting tools to creat…

Animal pinch pots are a fun clay lesson for older kids and middle school students. Build a clay elephant with step-by-step instructions.

I created this handout for my students to reference during their construction of their clay project (a clay gnome). The sheet breaks up the process into 10 steps and provides illustrations to help you with understanding the directions. My students used terracotta clay for this project, but modeling magic, polymer clay or homemade salt dough would work as well.

This expressive clay portrait lesson is a great way to get your students thinking creatively while learning the basics of working with clay.

Here are some art project tutorials that you can use in your classroom for Back to School success! They are all complete with the step-by-steps, student handouts, reflections, assessment, rubrics, and examples.

Clay can be the best and worst thing to happen in an art room. It can be a magical and intense experience for both the students and the art teacher. Once students get over the messy aspect of clay, they are completely mesmerized by the tactile and time consuming process. The illusive kiln, the obsessive smoothing, the endless need to score and slip…. I LOVE …

How to teach clay is a common question. I offer tips, tricks and lessons for having a successful clay day.

Stages of Clay PosterThis poster defines each of the stages of clay and indicates the stages where the clay is recyclable. This PDF file can be used to make handouts, posters or shared digitally with students. If you like this resource, consider purc...

This is a perfect slab lesson for artists will a little prior clay experience. How to use simple steps to create a clay animal face of your choice while applying slip and score to attach all clay pieces together. Perfect slab clay lesson for artists will a little prior clay experience.