FESTIVE HOLLY Holiday Sculpture Art Activity Visual Guide Skills for CLAY
Hand-building CLAY lesson that suits Kindergarten to upper elementary. This Visual Guide for a ceramics art activity was inspired by the Holly plant and its use as a festive symbol during the Winter and Christmas holidays. Created for students to explore basic slab building skills, glaze or paint. With older students this is a great skill review or a self-directed bonus activity at your independent clay art station.
For younger students, run as a teacher guided lesson to develop knowledge and skills for modelling with clay, making slabs and cutting shapes with tracers, attaching smaller elements and drawing textures. Use acrylic paints or glaze to finish the clay after bisque firing. Add metallic string to complete the hanging ornament.
Do you run exploratory art stations or fast finisher art centers (centres) in your classroom or art room? Then you are always needing new ideas for independent activities that students will enjoy. I started creating Visual Guides for my students to use independently, step-by-step for mini projects they work on at the clay station. Projects that build technical skills and media experience while allowing personal interpretation. These Visual Guides worked so well that I wanted to share them with you too.
When students can independently work at a choosing center (centre), you can get on with supporting those students that need more help. Also fabulous when you have early finishers that need a bonus activity to go on with, while the rest of your class finishes the current class project. Or use as a filler activity for those extra sessions that happen when events mess with our timetables. Works well for a sub lesson too.
This Visual Guide is useful as a supporting activity for the following art station guide, available HERE...
→ What Is Clay Guide for Art Stations or Centers Elementary Grades
which includes:
- The guide cover
- What is Clay
- Famous Clay artists
- Materials
- Making a Clay sculpture
- Can you make a Clay fish instruction card
- Clay clean-up
- Teacher Information x2
- Teacher instructions
- Blanks slides for you to add your own instructions x2
And a bonus slide with links to recommended, whole class, art projects for Clay.
❤️ If you would like specific Visual Guides for independent art activities to use in your art stations or centers, please make a request through the Contact page.
Praise from teachers who have already used:
→ CLAY, COLLAGE and PAPIER-MÂCHÉ BUNDLE 1
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Thank you for creating this art lesson, my students were engaged in this project and the outcomes were great"
Praise from teachers who have used one of my other Visual Guides for their art Centres (TPT review). Shaggy Dog COLLAGE
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "A great resource, thank you for creating a engaging project."
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Absolutely adorable! This resource was simple and easy to use but created awesome art! I used this for a summer camp with kids K-6th, and adapted as needed but all the dogs (and a few bison and llamas) came out well with the kids proud of their work. "
How will this product add value to your art curriculum?
✅ Use to build independent prior knowledge before starting a whole class project on CLAY
✅ Guides new learning for students who have little experience with CLAY
✅ Consolidates knowledge for & extend students who have used CLAY in the past.
✅ Great early finishers activity in a choosing center
✅ Easy to follow Sub lesson
✅ Print this art lesson Visual Guide's step-by-step thumbnail pages - full size and in color (colour), laminate back to back and add to the CLAY station for students to use independently. View the preview to fully understand the potential of this art lesson visual guide for your independent early finishers art centers (centres).
✅ Introduce the art lesson to you students by sharing the PDF slides with full size photos, on your large screen, asking students to infer the steps, clarifying any misunderstandings and explaining your expectations. Then leave them to it and watch them grow in responsibility and self management. You can even put some students in charge of the clean up section on a rotation basis.
Select VIEW > enter full screen for presentation mode. Then use the arrow keys on your keyboard to drive a smooth slideshow experience, like a pro :)
❤️ Take the stress out of prepping activities for art stations,
❤️ Avoid endless hours of research and resource creation
❤️ Avoid possible frustrations for students working on your guided art projects, that result from not having time to explore a media or technique, beforehand, and build that crucial prior knowledge and confidence with this medium.
❤️ Have available as an early finisher activity between projects
❤️ why should you trust my lessons?
I am both a general ed. classroom teacher and currently practising as a Visual Art and Digital Media specialist educator, teaching students from ages 4-12, at a primary school. I do this every day, just like you! I’ve done it all for you and trialed these art station guides in my own art centers.
❤️ How will this resource help busy teachers, who are nervous about teaching art?
No worries - I’ve got you covered.
This visual guide includes the materials list and teacher information, giving you the confidence to run the activity in your own classrooms.
⏰ How long should I run an art station for?
If you are an art teacher, then you can make that call based on your programme. For classroom teachers, I recommend that an art center stays open for at least a week, prior to starting a guided, whole class art project with that medium.
Then for another week after completing that project, so that early finishers can further experiment independently.
View the previews above, then add to cart and smile, knowing you can set up & run your art station with confidence.
❤️ So what is special about this resource?
This art activity introduces students to the media and techniques of Clay.
Students get to express their connection to the Winter holiday festivals and plants they see in their environment at this time of year.
Praise from teachers who have used one of my multi-lesson Guided CLAY Art Project plans:
CLAY sculpture art project for GNOMES ceramics lesson for holidays or Christmas
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "My 11 year old and myself great enjoyed using it, I found the instructions to be helpful"
View the Previews above, then add to cart and smile, knowing you have just saved yourself heaps of time and effort!
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