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Kara had her 7th grade students each make a set of 4 ceramic drink coasters. She encouraged them to pick interesting shapes instead of the standard square or circular shapes. There were some fish, butterflies, cats, planets, geometric shapes, fruits, cows, pigs, leaves, flowers, shapes to go along with different holidays and so on. They could make all 4 look the same of they can make different ones, as long as they could exist together in a set. For example, one students made two coasters in the shape of lily pads, while the other two were frogs.

To finish them, students decoupaged on top of the coasters, so they were very bright and eye catching. Mostly the kids collaged with tissue paper, but they also used handmade paper scraps, and the kids were also free to decoupage photos or pictures from magazines or the internet on top. Click on fish to see details

Creative Draped Slab Bowls

"When a bowl isn't just a bowl"....Seventh graders made these creative sculptural draped slab bowls. Bowls were made by draping clay over bowl (using a plastic wrap separator). Plaster cast bowl shaped humps could be used. The concept was that each student should take a standard bowl and make it into something more interesting. Sculptural elements were added. The bowls took about 1-2 weeks to build and about the same amount of time to paint. Students painted bowls with tempera then gave them a gloss acrylic finish.

Resource:

See Fantasy Bowl by Phyllis Kloda

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