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Material List: Sole Pendants White Modeling clay Plastic table covers Wipes Dowels Texture plates Rubber stamps Beads Liquid Tempera paint trays (set of 6 in small pots pre made in island) Paint brush Sponges Twine Art@Booksin

Docent Setup List: Docent Clean up List: Sole pendants Give each student: 1 piece of modeling clay (split packets into 8), paint brush, sponge Give each table : 2-3 Texture plates 2-3 Rubber stamps 6 Wipes 6 dowels Beads Liquid Tempera paint in small quantities 3 sharpies to write name on back of pendant Docent Clean up List: Make sure names are on back of clay Place completed in the clay drying blue trays and leave along back of room to dry. Wipe down tables, refill any items and return to bins as you found them – thanks for doing this and leading the lesson! Art@Booksin

Sole pendants Lesson 6 – Kinder Grade Art@Booksin Welcome in the students. State the lesson name. Art@Booksin

Today’s Lesson Skill Development: Today is a ceramic art lesson you are going to create your own sole pendant An opportunity to use a new material modeling clay, build texture and create a three-dimensional form. To introduce different methods of creating texture from unlikely sources. Explain the lesson objective and description. Today is all about teaching students to enjoy texture and realize that they can find texture and beauty in unlikely places – such as their sole of their shoes. For those of you who are not new docents you will remember that fish scales were how we taught this in the past!! Art@Booksin

What is Ceramic Art? It requires a 4 step creative process of: Known as an important art ‘ceramics’ (derived from Keramos, Greek for potters clay) refers to items made from clay bodies and fired in a kiln (or oven) to obtain the finished art form. Forming (i.e. shaping) Firing (baking in a kiln) Glazing/decorating (coating the object with a glaze, or applying to it various decorative techniques) Refiring (rebaking) to harden the glaze. Art@Booksin

Why is clay so important? Eventually, early men and women discovered that they could harden the molded pottery in hot ashes and make sturdy containers. Pottery is our oldest handicraft. Fired clay is one of the few materials on earth that does not change with time, and clay has always been an abundant resource. The earliest function of clay was to line baskets as a way to waterproof them. Baskets were often used to carry water to crops, and the clay lining prevented leakage. Ask students how we use clay today – Art@Booksin

Venus of Dolni Vestonice The Czech prehistoric sculpture (Vestonicka Venuse) is one of the earliest examples of fired clay sculptures in the world (c. 28,000–24,000 BC).  It is a ceramic statuette and has four holes in the head, the function of which is unknown. Docents here is a high level set of pottery art for 3 different parts of the world. This is a Venus figurine, a ceramic statuette of a nude female figure. The Venus of Dolni Vestonice now resides in the Vienna Natural History Museum Venus of Dolni Vestonice Art@Booksin

Chinese Pottery Chinese Pottery belonging to the era of Neolithic Art. Ever since the Stone Age, China has led the world in ceramic art and design. Its porcelain remains the finest ever made. In Prehistoric art, the term "Neolithic art" describes all arts and crafts created by societies who had abandoned the semi-nomadic lifestyle of hunting and gathering food in favour of farming and animal husbandry. Chinese Pottery Art@Booksin

Greek Red-Figure Style Pottery. Greek potters produced a wide range of ancient pottery in all shapes and sizes. They decorated it with abstract, historical and mythological designs. The most important styles included: geometric, black-figure, red-figure and white ground. The Greeks developed a variety of styles throughout the period 3,000-300 BCE. Please refer to the photograph print we have up on the wall in the art room. Ask students what style it is. Greek Red-Figure Style Pottery. Art@Booksin

Let’s get started.. Supplies Needed: 1 ball of clay Texture plates Rubber stamps Liquid Tempera paint trays Paint brush Sponge Wipes Your shoes! Beads Dowels Begin the practical lesson, check students have their supplies. Art@Booksin

Process to make Sole pendant: Start with a ball of clay Roll the clay into Three balls about the size of large marbles. With the larger balls of clay, make an impression of the most interesting patterns by pressing the clay onto the sole of sole (wipe clean first), or rubber stamp or texture plates. Continue pressing until each ball is flattened into a disc. At least one must be from the sole of a shoe Docents, there is a simple YouTube overview of this lesson which is worth watching as its very short. Our materials are a bit simpler for cost reasons. The link to the video is: https://youtu.be/hSZmy4Ksrvo. Please make sure One of the 3 is taken from a sole of a shoe. Thank you Art@Booksin

Process to make Sole pendant: Make a hanging hole using a dowel in the upper part of each clay disc (now embellished with an interesting texture). Paint them with liquid tempera paints. Highlight the raised textures on the pendants with a second color of paint using a sponge or finger Select plastic bead of student choice. Docents it may prove too hard to make the smaller beads, in which case we have plastic beads that students can use instead. Docents, store the pieces in the blue clay trays and then leave along the wall to dry. Thanks! Art@Booksin

Process to make Sole pendant: When the pendants and beads are completely dry, string them on the twine. Students can decide what they would like to use their Sole Pendant as: a necklace, tie it on a book bag or as an ornament and therefore select the length of twine (short or longer). Students should pass the cord through the hole in the pendant, and then pass both ends through the bead. This will allow the pendant to lay flat on the cord. Docents – because of time constraints some of you may have to do this or, it can be done at the end of another lesson with the students.

Lesson plan adapted from DICKBLICK.com Art history lesson slides are original and built from various sources. By Tara Button November 2015 Art@Booksin