Submitted by: LaDonna Dixon
UNIT: Ancient Greece Lesson
Lesson: Greek Pottery - Vessel shaped crayon etching.

Procedure:

Discuss with and show visuals of ancient Grecian vessels. There are a multitude of shapes that they vessels came in....and they all had "stories" painted on them with bands of designs. Students cut out the vessel shape they wanted from poster board. They colored it with crayons, using earth tones, oranges, reds, browns, tans, etc. -- Colored heavily and filled the entire space with crayons. Next, they painted over with the tempera with a touch of liquid soap added. Let dry. Scratch the stories and tradition Greek designs into the vessels. These turned out great.

Materials:

White poster board - Black tempera paint - large brushes - Liquid Soap ( a few drops) - Scissors - Crayons (earth tones) - Toothpicks (or the real scratch board tools)
LaDonna Dixon, NBCT Visual Arts Teacher Round Top Elementary

From Patty Caiola:

I do a lesson on Ancient Greek pottery/Scratch Art Vessels very similar to LaDonna. I have the students create a "mosaic" frame for their vessel using metallic colored pencils (for the mosaic tiles) on gray paper (to simulate the grout) and they color in a frame of 1" squares with 1/4" space in between each square. They paste their vessel in the middle of the mosaic frame. I have also tried this frame idea with paint and they stamp their 1" squares or I have used pre-cut mosaic paper tiles they glue down...It Depends on the students and the amount of time that year. All were successful.