Clay Flowers

This was a fun clay lesson I found here, thanks Bethany for sharing!  And Bethany thanked Mrs. Trott for sharing the lesson originally with her!!  We don't have a kiln, so we used air dry clay and painted with acrylic paints.  Next time I do this lesson, I'll give students a shorter skewer, and over-emphasize that each petal and leaf needs to be at least a certain thickness. 

A number of leaves and petals didn't make it to the painting stage b/c they were too thin and broke.

Materials Needed:

Clay

Paint

Wooden skewers

Small pot

Rocks to fill pot 

Make clay pieces and use wooden skewer to make the holes.  **Note, it's important to wiggle the skewer around a bit to make the holes a bit bigger than the width of skewer because the clay tends to shrink when it dries.

Paint each part separately.

After paint dries, thread pieces onto the wooden skewer.



This student got creative with broken flower.....I still think it looks great:)



Thanks tons to North County Christian School high school art students!!!