Clay Gingerbread Houses

This lesson is one that I got from a fellow art teacher at my school.

Learning Targets:
Students will create a functional gingerbread house using a slab method on hand building.  Students will be able to create a free standing gingerbread house.  Students will demonstrate how to connect clay pieces using scoring and slip.  Students will imitate textures and forms that they find in candies and confections.  The student will become more aware of the firing process.  The student will improve their understanding of design and creating texture.

The students had a lot of fun creating these projects.  We created them fast so that they would be ready for the Holidays.

Snowflakes for Sandy Hook

We are helping out Sandy Hook by helping to give them a Winter Wonderland when they go to their new school.

Find out more at:
http://www.ctpta.org/About-CT-PTA/SANDY-HOOK-FUND.html

Finished Tessellated Spheres on Display

The spheres are now on display in the hallway display case across from the Athletic Office.

Watercolor Pratice

Students draw and painted a toy that I had all in one shortened class period (pep assembly schedule).

Clay Gingerbread Houses

Students are busy constructing and designing Clay Gingerbread Houses.

Practice Clay Whistles

Students made and glazed practice whistles before they made Kindergarten Inspired Monster Whistles.

Creative Student

One of my very cool creative students!

Graphic Design Cereal Day

It's Cereal day in Graphic Design. Students brought boxes of cereal to eat as research for our next project, design their on cereal box.

Facial Features

Students are learning how to draw and shade a face. Students are spending time doing a full page shaded drawing of different facial features in their sketchbook. Students were provided with images and were to spend about one class period on each of the four features: eye, mouth, nose, & ear.

Color Pencil Candy

Students drew from direct observation to draw and shade realistic studies of Candy.

High School Sidewalk Chalk

80 degrees in October got us outside creating Art! Student look at 3-d chalk artist and worked it group to see how they could make a 3-d sidewalk chalk monster.