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Contributed by raina7
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Animals and their Young
Clay Sculpture
Laraine Cicchetti
Examples in my Gallery
Grade 2
Objective: Students will consider size and space relationships in a clay sculpture of an animal and its young.
Materials: earth clay
I use a low fire (cone 06) light colored clay for this lesson.
Motivational Questions:
(Teacher starts out by flattening out a piece of clay to designate a space for students to begin to visualize their ideas and asks, “Suppose this is a place where an animal is caring for it’s young.”)
What animal will you choose to make? How will the parent be caring for it’s young? Which animal will be biggest? What will they be doing? Where will the baby be? Will you need to add anything to the base to show where the animals live?
Extensions: Fired clay sculptures can be painted with tempera paint.
Materials: tempera paint: red, yellow, blue, black, brown and white, mixing papers(or some surface to mix colors) water and paper towels
Motivational Questions: What animal did you make? What color is it? Will the baby be the same color as the parent? Will there be colors you need to mix? How will you mix them?
Create a gallery of completed work if you can. This gives young artists and their audience a place to view and discuss work over time.
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