Art Elective Q3: Ceramics and Easter Skit Props

 A few years ago, I did a ceramic elective and my students loved it! Not having a background in ceramics, I was able to watch some tutorial videos, chat with the high school ceramics teacher and gather materials for some basic ceramics. The high school has a kiln and the high school ceramics teacher was happy to fire our projects. 

For quarter three, this year, I chose to do another ceramics unit where students could get a basic understanding of ceramics. We talked over what ceramics is, different kinds of clay, where it comes from, terms they need to know and clean-up rules. A former teacher had created the 10 commandments of ceramics (rules for ceramics), and along with resources from Kinder Art and other places, I created some slides for the first day. Then, we got into it and started exploring! Here are the projects we worked on:

• Coil pots
• Textured soapdishes
• Dragons

During this same quarter, another teacher was conducting a drama elective and planning a couple of Easter skits for her students to act out. We also helped to create props for her skits which my students also loved to do! Here are the props we created:

• Palm branches
• 2 big signs with lettering
• 2 t-shirts with writing on them
• A wooden cross
• Jesus' empty tomb
• Cardboard Easter eggs and flowers for decorations

I have included some fun pics below to check out! Enjoy!

Here are photos of them creating props for the Easter skits.