Book

Kong, Ellen.

The great clay adventure : creative handbuilding for young artists / Ellen Kong.

Worcester, Mass. : Davis Publications, ©1999.

134 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Encourage your kids to express their creativity as they discover, collect, sort, arrange, experiment, and think with found and recyclable "stuff." The real-life experiences of teachers and children will inspire ideas that you can try at home: choose objects and turn them into a display, transform materials into a face, build and glue wood scraps to make constructions.

Modeling -- Study and teaching (Elementary)

Modeling -- Study and teaching (Middle school)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-131) and index.

Fundamentals -- First steps: knee and elbow pots -- Applying the fundamentals: pinch pots -- Adding on new experiences: coil beads -- Pinch pot and coil combination: turtles -- Advanced creatures: coil animals -- Animals at work: pinch pot baskets -- Watering hole: animal pitchers and fountains -- Egg-form creations: owls -- Basic handbuilding techniques and glazes: tropical fish -- Interdisciplinary unit: fossils -- Easy slab-building lesson for beginners: clay pockets -- Paper and clay collaborative project: kimonos -- Individual or group project: milk carton houses -- Exploring pottery forms and surface designs: flower vases -- Facial expressions: masks -- Cone-shaped creations: people and mice -- Slab and coil combined critter: frogs -- Clay project with a statement: chairs -- Printmaking through clay: coil stamp prints -- Clay and printmaking: rubber stamps on tiles -- Relief block printing: relief tiles -- Melodic rings and musical pinch pots: wind chimes and bells -- Sounding creations: whistles -- Neptune charges forth: a chess set -- Serving up the masters: dinnerware.

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