1st Grade Clay-liens!

This year I got smart about clay and narrowed it down to "clay week", which naturally turned into clay month factoring in 2 days of hand-building then one day of glazing...and still have yet to hit 4th grade's clay project...eek. Anyways, the clay aliens...or clay-liens as I have so dubbed them always are a bit hit. The kids love clay, obviously, but they really get to be "free" when creating these creatures. Here you can see them after the glazing process...and honestly I'm a little disappointed with the glazes this year. They turned out super light...oh well. They're still awesome. 

This was our little clay-lien miracle/beautiful oops...a clay-lien somehow attached itself to a 2nd grader's coil pot and fused together in the kiln. Together they look like A.the clay-lien threw up into the coil pot or B. the clay-lien has a hilariously huge underbite. I couldn't let either kid take this so it will live with me. 

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Clay-Aliens

Here is my 1st grade clay project this year. We are supposed to do pinch pots but this group of 1st graders are up for challenges so we did Aliens!

We did this in one hour and I am really happy with the results. I'm going to put them in the art show and I wanted to glaze them, but alas time is running out! So we are going to paint them acrylics or tempera paint...probably tempera.

We made a pinch pot and turned it upside down then added eyes, antennas...

 

I'll post more pics later once these are painted.

1st Grade Pinch Pots

Over 100 pinch pots in one week...I'm tired of clay! Have I said that yet? So we had one explosion...not sure why, yet. I'm guessing it was all the air bubble's fault. Some pots were underglazed pre-fire....and some got bisque fired then underglazed...I was experimenting and didn't notice a difference. Also need glaze-free bowls for firing 2nd grade's fossil pendants and beads.  I really really like them though. So in the end, it was alllllll worth it.