8 weeks crash course for kids plan
I have been taking 2 classes from Croxton Special School in ceramics on an 8 week course and I thought that I would outline the course and keep it as a resource. Its a crash course in the most important skills and students should come out of it with the confidence to be able to invent and make their own ceramics and a good understanding of building techniques. Each lesson goes for an hour.
lesson 1
pinch pots
Demonstrate pinch pot.
Give students clay each. Then demonstrate as everyone makes a pinch pot together.
Demonstrate adding textures and patterns to the pinch pot using stamps, a skewer, other tools
Later demonstrate how to roll a sausage and add the sausage to make a larger pot. Show how to add clay using scoring and slip.
tips: for students who dry out their clay by handling the clay too much, have a wet sponge sitting next to them, that they can wet their fingers on. This dampness transfers gradually to the clay, keeping it soft and pliable.
lesson2
Coils in moulds
Have a variety of moulds, plates, bowls etc.
Demonstrate how to roll sausages of clay.
break off a small piece and squish it into a basic sausage shape then begin to roll it. Roll with two hands on a flat board. Put pressure where the sausage needs to be thinner. Use sausages to line the mould. YOu can make patterns or a design with the sausages. Join sausages with your finger by scraping the clay across. Then use a kidney tool to make the surface smooth. Kidney tools can be made by cutting up icecream lids into shapes. ( good for people who lose their tools)
lesson3
Underglazing and glazing
lesson4
Faces - wall hanging
Demonstrate how to roll the clay out. When rolling clay, roll on a wooden board. Stand up so that you can more easily transfer your weight and strength towards rolling the clay. move the clay after each rolling, to make sure it doesn't stick tot he board. Only roll the clay a little less than a centimetre thick. I always tell students that it shouldn't be thinner than your pinky. ( The little finger on your hand, not your fat foot pinky).
Demonstrate how to join pices of clay using scoring and slip.
Add features to the face, such as eyes, nose etc.
Lift the face to make it 3D by stuffing some crumpled up newspaper underneath the slab of clay.
Add more features and holes for hanging.
Can be decorated with underglazes.
lesson5
Two pinch pots joined together to make a creature.
lesson6
more underglazing and glazing
lesson7
Making decisions about what to make.
Introduce students to the idea of thinking about what they want to make and working out how to do it.
Remind them of the things they have made and the techniques used to make them.
Remind them of how to join things using scoring and slip - demonstrate this again.
Discuss ideas of what students would like to make and how they could go about it.
students have a go.
lesson8
Finish off pieces - underglazing and glazing.
Options for ceramics classes
fish bowls with textures and coloured underglazes
I have made lots of leaves with kinder kids. Below is an example of one. It has just been made and is decorated with underglaze colours. Then it is bisque fired and glazed and fired again ( earthenware) to bring out the colours.
before painting it the children could make it bowl shaped by resting it in a support. ( a takeaway container and cloth)
Above photo from internet
Make Faces – with holes for hanging them
above: example of underglazes to decorate and a glaze firing
above photo from internet
above: example of clay face painted later with acrylic paint.
Above photo from internet
above: a slab of clay, two holes for hanging. Child has traced their hand onto the clay and added texture around it.
Above Photo from internet
another example of bisque fired work with oxides for decoration.
Terracotta clay with a black iron oxide.
Photo taken from internet.
Below: children holding up their artwork which is white clay with coloured underglaze decoration. This work has then been glazed and fired a second time.
above photo taken from the internet.
above: some hands that I did with Lincolnville kindergarten.
(everything shrinks when drying and in the kiln so the hands will become smaller)
I have been taking 2 classes from Croxton Special School in ceramics on an 8 week course and I thought that I would outline the course and keep it as a resource. Its a crash course in the most important skills and students should come out of it with the confidence to be able to invent and make their own ceramics and a good understanding of building techniques. Each lesson goes for an hour.
lesson 1
pinch pots
Demonstrate pinch pot.
Give students clay each. Then demonstrate as everyone makes a pinch pot together.
Demonstrate adding textures and patterns to the pinch pot using stamps, a skewer, other tools
Later demonstrate how to roll a sausage and add the sausage to make a larger pot. Show how to add clay using scoring and slip.
tips: for students who dry out their clay by handling the clay too much, have a wet sponge sitting next to them, that they can wet their fingers on. This dampness transfers gradually to the clay, keeping it soft and pliable.
lesson2
Coils in moulds
Have a variety of moulds, plates, bowls etc.
Demonstrate how to roll sausages of clay.
break off a small piece and squish it into a basic sausage shape then begin to roll it. Roll with two hands on a flat board. Put pressure where the sausage needs to be thinner. Use sausages to line the mould. YOu can make patterns or a design with the sausages. Join sausages with your finger by scraping the clay across. Then use a kidney tool to make the surface smooth. Kidney tools can be made by cutting up icecream lids into shapes. ( good for people who lose their tools)
lesson3
Underglazing and glazing
lesson4
Faces - wall hanging
Demonstrate how to roll the clay out. When rolling clay, roll on a wooden board. Stand up so that you can more easily transfer your weight and strength towards rolling the clay. move the clay after each rolling, to make sure it doesn't stick tot he board. Only roll the clay a little less than a centimetre thick. I always tell students that it shouldn't be thinner than your pinky. ( The little finger on your hand, not your fat foot pinky).
Demonstrate how to join pices of clay using scoring and slip.
Add features to the face, such as eyes, nose etc.
Lift the face to make it 3D by stuffing some crumpled up newspaper underneath the slab of clay.
Add more features and holes for hanging.
Can be decorated with underglazes.
lesson5
Two pinch pots joined together to make a creature.
lesson6
more underglazing and glazing
lesson7
Making decisions about what to make.
Introduce students to the idea of thinking about what they want to make and working out how to do it.
Remind them of the things they have made and the techniques used to make them.
Remind them of how to join things using scoring and slip - demonstrate this again.
Discuss ideas of what students would like to make and how they could go about it.
students have a go.
lesson8
Finish off pieces - underglazing and glazing.
Options for ceramics classes
fish bowls with textures and coloured underglazes
I have made lots of leaves with kinder kids. Below is an example of one. It has just been made and is decorated with underglaze colours. Then it is bisque fired and glazed and fired again ( earthenware) to bring out the colours.
before painting it the children could make it bowl shaped by resting it in a support. ( a takeaway container and cloth)
- 1. You could paint with coloured underglazes ( two firings and glaze needing to be painted on after the first firing, by northcote pottery employees.
- 2. Use clay only and concentrate on working on the textures of the leaf. Debbie to add oxide wash when the clay is a little dry. This can be fired once only. It would be a bisque-ware finish. I would recommend making it out of terracotta and using a black oxide or a white clay with brown iron oxide ( see photo below)
- 3. Make it out of clay only. After firing once, the children can paint their colours on with acrylic paint. This can be gloss spray varnished also ( by the kinder teachers, applied outdoors).
Above photo from internet
Make Faces – with holes for hanging them
- 1. The faces could be either underglazed with bright colours and then glazed. ‘
- 2. Or you could use coloured slips which gives different earth tones and bisque fire only ( matt finish)
- 3. Or the ceramics could be made with clay only concentrating on the texture and bisque fired, then the work could be painted with acrylic colours.
above: example of underglazes to decorate and a glaze firing
above photo from internet
above: example of clay face painted later with acrylic paint.
Above photo from internet
above: a slab of clay, two holes for hanging. Child has traced their hand onto the clay and added texture around it.
Above Photo from internet
another example of bisque fired work with oxides for decoration.
Terracotta clay with a black iron oxide.
Photo taken from internet.
Below: children holding up their artwork which is white clay with coloured underglaze decoration. This work has then been glazed and fired a second time.
above photo taken from the internet.
above: some hands that I did with Lincolnville kindergarten.
(everything shrinks when drying and in the kiln so the hands will become smaller)
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