Clay lesson plans

Answer the call of the wild while sculpting with Activ-Low Fire Clay (formerly known as Blackjack Low-Fire Clay)! This Little Howlers lesson plan from our friend Ruthie Post at Little Budding Artist is an excellent way to introduce students to clay terminology and process.

This expressive clay portrait lesson is a great way to get your students thinking creatively while learning the basics of working with clay.

Animal pinch pots are a fun clay lesson for older kids and middle school students. Build a clay elephant with step-by-step instructions.

This is a perfect slab lesson for artists will a little prior clay experience. How to use simple steps to create a clay animal face of your choice while applying slip and score to attach all clay pieces together. Perfect slab clay lesson for artists will a little prior clay experience.

Clay can be the best and worst thing to happen in an art room. It can be a magical and intense experience for both the students and the art teacher. Once students get over the messy aspect of clay, they are completely mesmerized by the tactile and time consuming process. The illusive kiln, the obsessive smoothing, the endless need to score and slip…. I LOVE …

This subtractive clay bust is an awesome high school ceramics lesson that helps students explore figurative art, personal expression and a variety of handbuilding techniques.

Carve and paint beautiful clay relief tiles with air drying clay. This is clay project for kids is a great one to make together with a caregiver.

I put together a booklet for the staff of the primary school I work in. They were wanting to learn about clay and some ideas of what they...

( a sample ceramic turtle) Title: Ceramic Turtle Topic: learning to work with clay, sculpture Goals & Objectives: Students will model clay with control. Students will build upon past knowledge in order to craft an original, three-dimensional artwork. Through observation, investigation and discipline, students will create an art object demonstrating the use of the elements and principles of design. Students will use ceramic vocabulary when referring to the processes of shaping clay objects…

Clay Relief Pumpkin Workshop – STOLLOWEEN