ART RESPONDING ACTIVITY: Introducing children to Clay sculpting.
PREPARATION:
In the room, set out different kinds of clay pots or jugs on the table or on the carpet floor.
In the room, set out different kinds of clay pots or jugs on the table or on the carpet floor.
Materials:
Clay Pots, Jugs, Clay
Clay Pots, Jugs, Clay
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Children are to be place either with on the chair close to the clay on the table or on the floor. Let the children investigate the clay pots, let them FEEL/TOUCH, SMELL and SEE it and explore the
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
- OUTCOME 1: Doing this as a group can help children to interact in relation to others, engage in and contribute to shared play experience
- OUTCOME 2: Children will be able to use play to investigate, project and explore new ideas.
- OUTCOME 3: Children recognise the contributions they make to shared projects and experiences in group activities
- OUTCOME 4: Playing with play dough can help children to investigate, imagine and explore ideas
- OUTCOME 5: Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media (use of creative arts such as drawing or sculpture etc.
Art Making Activity: Exploring Clay Scultping
Materials:
Clay
Clay
INSTRUCTIONS:
Children are to be place either with on the chair close to the clay on the table or on the floor. Let them FEEL/TOUCH, SMELL and SEE what's going to happen when they play with clay. They can squeeze it, poke it, squash it, pick it up and pat it down.
Children are to be place either with on the chair close to the clay on the table or on the floor. Let them FEEL/TOUCH, SMELL and SEE what's going to happen when they play with clay. They can squeeze it, poke it, squash it, pick it up and pat it down.
- Children can enjoy every aspect of exploration of the clay
- It will be a never ending experience for them as of the texture and material of the clay can be reconstructable
- Children will be instinctively motivated to explore soft and responsive sensory of the clay
- It helps to strengthen small fingers, hands and wrists. Children gain control over their hands and arms movements which improves coordination.
- It will help to build the children's imagination.
ASK QUESTIONS!
'how does that feel?'
'What are you doing?'
Not only will you learn a lot about the child's inner world but you will build her self-esteem by showing great interest in what she/he is feeling and thinking.
'how does that feel?'
'What are you doing?'
Not only will you learn a lot about the child's inner world but you will build her self-esteem by showing great interest in what she/he is feeling and thinking.
NOTES/ Suggestions
• Using different coloured lumps of clay will make this activity more colourful and interesting.
• For very young children, this is a great way to teach them how something can be turned into something else
• Using different coloured lumps of clay will make this activity more colourful and interesting.
• For very young children, this is a great way to teach them how something can be turned into something else
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
- OUTCOME 2 & 3: Children can build his/her self-esteem by showing great interest in what she is feeling and thinking.
- OUTCOME 4: Children often have a very strong sense of inner logic to explain things that seem highly improbable
- OUTCOME 5: Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media (use of creative arts such as drawing or sculpture etc.