Carole Fox on sun 4 mar 01
I, too, have taught clay to little kids and have a few project ideas for =
you.
Tic- tac -toe game - Make a small slab into a board. Model 5 each of two =
different types of playing pieces. Some examples my students have done =
are: mice and wedges of cheese, frogs and curled-up snakes, apples and =
bananas, and cars and train engines. The possibilities are endless. They =
just need to fit within the size of the squares on the board and be =
relatively stable. Kids love a project they can play with.
3-pot condiment dish- Make three pinch pots of equal size. Construct a =
handle from a thick coil of clay. The handle can be decorative but not =
fragile! Slip the three pots together with the handle sticking up in the =
middle.=20
Castles- Using slightly stiff slabs and hollow extrusions, construct a =
castle onto an irregularly cut slab of clay. You can add trees, dragons, =
a moat... whatever!=20
I prefer that my kids paint their work with underglaze, then clear glaze =
after the bisque. I use the non-toxic, food-safe underglazes put out by =
Duncan , sometimes Amaco. Though they are expensive, I find they are =
usually too thick and need to be diluted with water. (Same with the =
clear glaze.) I like to rely on these commercial products for the kids =
stuff because they are so consistent.=20
Hope this is of some use.
Carole Fox- in Elkton, MD, whose favorite stage of potting is when I'm =
burnishing the terra sig and that shiny surface feels so smooooth. I =
love it!
Martin Howard on mon 5 mar 01
Carole, what is the Tic- tac -toe game?
I don't know it over here, but it sounds really good for our Childrens'
Pottery Parties.
I would prepare the board beforehand, and leave the children to make the
little pieces on the day.
But then how do we play the game?
Martin Howard
Webb's Cottage Pottery
Woolpits Road, Great Saling
BRAINTREE, Essex CM7 5DZ
England
martin@webbscottage.co.uk
Dai Scott on mon 5 mar 01
Martin, I think TicTacToe is the same as Naughts and Crosses (X's & O's).
Isn't the English language, and all its mutations, wonderful?
Dai in Kelowna, BC
potterybydai@home.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Howard"
To:
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: Little Kids and clay
> Carole, what is the Tic- tac -toe game?
>
> I don't know it over here, but it sounds really good for our Childrens'
> Pottery Parties.
> I would prepare the board beforehand, and leave the children to make the
> little pieces on the day.
>
> But then how do we play the game?
>
> Martin Howard
> Webb's Cottage Pottery
> Woolpits Road, Great Saling
> BRAINTREE, Essex CM7 5DZ
> England
> martin@webbscottage.co.uk
>
>
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mel jacobson on thu 2 dec 10
no lessons, no instruction:
give the kids 5 lbs of clay...a bucket of water.
set them on a blue tarp.
leave the space. leave them alone.
tell them to make stuff.
my favorite trick:
family comes with three kids...big new suv in the
driveway.
i tell them about making pots, show them the kiln.
then i put about three pounds of soft clay in a
piece of plastic and hand it to the kids.
`here, take some clay, make stuff and bring
it back to me for fire`..
(hehe, they will have that clay out of the plastic before
they get home.
clay on those leather seats....yahooooooooooo.
kids and clay is very much like trying to teach
kids to look in a bon-fire.
no instruction needed. they will for sure find long sticks to burn,
and embers to throw around. if we do not let kids do stuff like
fire, clay, water...they will be retarded when they turn 18.
mel
it is like the mothers that want me to start some
6 year old with wheel instruction...`well, my kid is so advanced
you know`....yah, right. not on your life. i like to start kids
on the wheel about the time they learn to drive.
kids hand build. they already know how.
from: minnetonka, mn
website: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/
clayart link: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/clayart.html
new book: http://www.21stcenturykilns.com
alternate: melpots7575@gmail.com
Larry Kruzan on thu 2 dec 10
my favorite trick:
family comes with three kids...big new suv in the
driveway.
i tell them about making pots, show them the kiln.
then i put about three pounds of soft clay in a
piece of plastic and hand it to the kids.
`here, take some clay, make stuff and bring
it back to me for fire`..
(hehe, they will have that clay out of the plastic before
they get home.
clay on those leather seats....yahooooooooooo.
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Hi Mel,
As I recall, you like to use a really, really deeeep red clay. Hummmmm, LOL
Larry
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Jim Willett on fri 3 dec 10
Mel,
We'll add to that with a note about our experiences. As The Clay Teacher =
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clay. That is when the fun really begins. For that short time the kids ar=
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characters...anything and everything. The real shame is that this only ha=
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once a school year when we are invited into the schools. We are seeing ki=
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pound block of clay home with each one of them!
Jim Willett and Cindy Clarke
Out of the Fire Studio
Edmonton, Alberta
The Clay Teacher
http://www.theclayteacher.com
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