DRAGON EYE with PLAY DOUGH Art Activity Visual Guide Skills Builder for CLAY
Quick art activity for Play Dough (Doh) sculpture of a Dragon Eye, to develop hand-building skills for clay. Students learn about slabs, spheres, coils and attaching while using this mess free product. A great introduction practise that is temporary and builds skills before engaging with the more permanent clay Dragon Eye lesson. This visual guide will also support your students at your independent Art centre. The perfect self-directed or early finisher project for older grades or a teacher guided project for younger grades and sub teachers.
Do you run exploratory or skill building art stations in your classroom or art room? Then you are always needing new ideas for independent activities that students will enjoy. I started creating self-directed Visual Guides for my students to use independently, for quick projects to work on, in the clay sculpture centre. 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 all.
When students can independently work at a choosing station, you can get on with supporting those students that need more help. Modelling Clay or Play Dough (Doh) is fabulous when you have time before a clay unit, allowing students to ideate in 3D, in a skill building lesson before starting their main clay project.
Use this with my Clay Dragon Eyes unit, as a skill builder / practise activity. Or when you have early finishers that need a mess free activity to go on with, while the rest of your class finishes the current class project. Use as a filler activity between projects or when timetables get messy. Also works well for an easy sub lesson.
Use as a Unit by combining with the following lessons, also available HERE, as suits your curriculum:
- DRAGON EYES CLAY sculpture art project for ceramics lesson 4th grade - Middle
- DRAGON EYE model magic Art Activity Visual Guide for CLAY SKILLS Centre
- Dragon's Eye video art lesson plan for Drawing Texture and Form
Tested in my classroom and suitable for students in 3rd - 6th grades. Use with Mid Elementary as a teacher guided lesson or for Upper Elementary to Middle School students as a self-directed task. This Visual Guide for a modelling clay based art activity of a DRAGON EYE, supports students to explore basic hand-building, composition and joining skills prior to the clay unit.
This Visual Guide is useful as a supporting activity for the following art station guide, available HERE...
→ What Is Clay! a 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 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 or absentee activity in a choosing center/centre
✅ Easy to follow Sub lesson
✅ Last minute filler activity for those extra lesson times
✅ 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 older 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 tested these art station guides in my own art classroom.
❤️ 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.
This Play Dough (Doh) dragon eye took students, in Grades 4-6, 1-2 class periods to complete independently. Try to include about 15min of independent research time for students look up visual exemplars for inspiration, on-line. Students worked independently using the thumbnail sheets for reference.
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 mythology of dragons. They get to express their unique ideas through personal choices and modifications, while experimenting at your CLAY art centre, bringing personal creative ideas to the activity.
Praise from teachers who have used one of my multi-lesson Guided CLAY Art Project plans (TPT buyer):
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!
✅ 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
→ If you would prefer the added support of guided video tutorials, browse my growing collection in this custom category HERE: ART LESSONS WITH VIDEO TUTORIALS
→ For my Elements of Art lessons, click HERE: ART ELEMENTS
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