Yet another food subject project. I do love food:) Anyway, I found this project on Art Projects for Kids, and couldn't wait to try it. It was REALLY successful! All students could be successful at this. I did this with 4th grade but I think I could have done it with younger grades too. I liked working with 4th grade on it because I saw some creativity that I didn't think I would have seen with the younger groups.
This is a two piece project. The bottom is a small ball of clay place into a silicon cupcake liner.
I also tried some plastic trays from the dollar store but I liked the silicon better. The top of the cupcake is a hand build pinch pot. Each artist had the option to decorate the cupcake with what ever fruit (no bigger then a quarter) on the top. I waxed the top of the clay cupcake liner. and the bottom of the frosting before glazing (as seen in earlier post) and they glazed away. I talked about molds, hand build, scoring and 'clay glue' (slip) and glazing doing this project.
Hi! Contrats on your award! That is great!
ReplyDeleteI tried this lesson this year, too. It was very successful for me, too. I also had the kids draw cakes and pies before I did the lesson. I don't yet have a post on this lesson on my blog, The ART of Education, http://theartofeducation.wordpress.com, but I hope to soon!
Jessica