FRIDA'S FLOWERS Portrait Sculpture Art Activity Visual Guide Skills for CLAY
Hand-building CLAY project to suits elementary students, a great option for the Back-to-school season. Create clay self-portraits with this ceramics art activity inspired by the style of Frida Kahlo portraiture. Learning intention is for students to explore basic slab building and joining skills with clay design techniques, and finishing with glaze or paint. With older students this is a great skill review as a self-directed activity in you clay art centre (center). Thumbnail sheets included for guided independence.
Or run as a teacher guided lesson for younger students to develop knowledge and skills for modelling with clay, like making slabs and attaching smaller elements securely, or stamping textures. Use water paints, acrylics or glaze to finish the clay after bisque firing. The addition of flowers above the ear also gives the work a tropical flare.
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 mini projects they use at the cla table. Projects that build technical skills and media experience while allowing personal interpretation. These Visual Guides work so well that I wanted to share them with you.
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.
Praise from teachers who have already used (available on TPT):
→ 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"
How will this product add value to your art curriculum?
✅ Use to build independent prior knowledge before starting a whole class project with CLAY
✅ Guides new learning for students who have little experience with CLAY
✅ Consolidates knowledge for & extend students who have had some experience with CLAY in the past.
✅ Great early finishers activity in a choosing center (centre) 4th grades and up
✅ Easy to follow Sub lesson
✅ Last minute filler activity for those extra lesson times
✅ Quick guided clay lesson for younger grades (1st - 3rd grades) with stunning outcomes
More Art station set up cards & scaffolded Visual Guides for mini projects are available for your art centers HERE, more being added all the time.
If you would like to view more Clay Teaching Guides like this one - view these products listed below:
- CLAY Sculpture Art Activity FLAT OWL Visual Guide for slab building skills HERE (TPT)
- CLAY Sculpture Art Activity FLAT CAT Visual Guide for slab building skills HERE (TPT)
- FESTIVE HOLLY Holiday Sculpture Art Activity Visual Guide Skills for CLAY HERE
More being added all the time...
❤️ Why should I run art centres (centers) in my classroom? Isn't that just for art teachers?
The short answer is NO.
We can no longer omit art explorations from our classrooms.
Art can make a powerful contribution to our students' mental health
In addition to helping students develop a number of important skills, free expression (like using art stations or art centers) is also good for overall health and well-being. Giving young children a creative outlet can help relieve stress and work through things happening in their lives. By encouraging artistic expression, you can help facilitate further learning and engagement. Making art can help children to deal with a wide range of mental health issues and psychological stress, like anxiety. View further information about this topic from Michigan State University HERE
✅ Print this art lesson Visual Guide's step-by-step thumbnail pages - full size and in colour (color), laminate back to back and add to your art station for olderstudents to use independently. Or use as your teaching guide for a directed, skill based lesson.
View the preview to fully understand the potential of these art lesson visual guides for you or your independent learners and early finishers.
✅ 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 students in charge of the clean up at your art station, to further build that responsibility.
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 or subs
❤️ Avoid endless hours of research and resource creation
❤️ Avoid possible frustrations for students working on your main 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 to keep your students engaged and learning
❤️ 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! My experience and knowledge are up to date with current practise.
❤️ 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 for each project, giving you the confidence to run the activities 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 station 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.
This clay project will take 1 lessons to build and another to paint / glaze. Drying and fining times also need to be considered.
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. It uses easily available resources (clay & plastic flowers) and lends itself to creative diversity.
Students get to express their unique ideas through personal choices and modifications, while working through the projects. Choose between glaze or paint options to finish the sculpture.
✅ Where can I find more art lessons like this one on this site?
Click the links in the description above, or...
→ You can browse all my Art Stations / Early Finishers / Sub support resources HERE
→ Browse all my comprehensive art lessons provided as PDF presentation lesson HERE: VISUAL ART STORE
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