Kindergarten Clay Necklaces

 

Unfortunately I didn’t seem to get pics of the kids creating the beads. We used the textures from the bottom of our shoes on the pendant. To create the beads we rolled “spheres” and stuck them on a wooden kabob stick.

 

We painted with cool colors using tempera.

 

Then we dipped our fingers in gold paint to rub a golden finish on top of our textures.

Did I mention we get real messy with this project?

 

I just lay out a plate of cool colors for the paint…and store them in gallon size ziploc baggies for the next class.

The next class, we string them on “Twizteez” wire necklaces and plan a design using plastic beads.

Below are some fabulous kindergarten models.

Coil Pots with 2nd Grade

 

Tried this new technique this year with putting a glass bead in the bottom of the coil pots before firing on Cone 04. We did a Crystal Clear glaze with the blue beads and they turned out beautifully! (Just in time for Mother’s Day too!)

We used one class period to build the coil pot and the next class we glazed.

Kiln before and after…..

Loving these melted glass pools…

Ringgold Quilt Squares

Narrative Art

Fiber Arts Fusion…sounds like a good summer art camp theme…hmm. Anyway I love this project more and more each year. I’m starting to “get it”. So glad I’ve been teaching this awesome lesson all along!

Day One:  Read and discuss “Tar Beach” by Faith Ringgold. If I could fly, I would fly______________.

To, over, across, under, inside, above…they loved brainstorming places.

 

We sketch out our full-body self-portrait and practice writing our sentence in our Idea Books. Then we draw a one-inch border on a 12”x12” square. They just used the width of the ruler sliding it from edge to edge…no fancy measuring involved.

Next we illustrate our Quilt Square with pencil and trace with Sharpie.

We color these with crayons and finally add one-inch squares of fabric around the border.

I love how the story implied that once you fly over something, you own it forever. This artist really embraced that idea!

“I have the hole circus now!”….