Clay Making




 Description:

        For this project we were given a chunk of clay and then instructed to squish it and fold it over like your making dough. After awhile we then would throw it at the table, and pick it up and continue that for a bit making sure there wasn't any air pockets. We then were given two pieces of wood to put one each side of your clay and a dowel to role out the clay. After each roll you were needed to pick it up so that it wouldn't stick to the cardboard. Once it got to a certain width we then used a bowel to cut out a circular shape. We wet our finger with water and smoothed out the edges a little bit. After those steps were done we were told that we needed one additive and one negative thing added to our clay that represented us. I chose to do a tree as the additive, scoring both the tree and the circular slab and putting a little bit of water on it making sure that it would stick together. For my negative thing I wrote into the clay slab "outdoors" on the bottom part. Once those were done we then painted the clay. 


Extension Activity:

            An extension activity that could be done could be having them make an ornament for their parents/guardians for Christmas. They could either do something that represents them (like we did) or they could do something Christmas themed. When making this all they would have to do differently is make a hole at the top so that string is able to be put through it. This would done in time for it to fully dry for them to be able to take home for Christmas. 

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