4th Grade Fashion Design with Clay

4th grade artists studied various art professions that they could be if they decided to pursue art in a career. One of these jobs is a fashion designer.  We watched a news article about a 13 year old fashion designer named Cecelia Cassini. She is so young but making a big splash in the fashion design world even at her young age. Sometimes it pays off right away to follow your dreams and sometimes it takes time. We tried our hand at fashion design when we created our own sketches of various outfits, then chose our best own to craft out of clay. (art element = form).

The slideshow that I created to go along with fashion design is viewable on the below link:

Fashion Design Slide Show CLICK HERE

The write up of the lesson plan is below:

Fashion Design Lesson Plan CLICK HERE

3rd Grade Aboriginal Boomerangs

3rd Grade artists have been working on their 2nd Aboriginal art project for this year's cultural study of Australia. They were so excited to get to utilize form in their artwork while shaping and designing their own Boomerang! One of our student's father brought a real boomerang back from Australia and we had a little show and tell!

2nd grade Cartouches

2nd graders learned about ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics. They also learned that the pharoah would write his name in a cartouche. It was usually oval/rectangular in shape and had the name inside. Egyptians also used a lot of gold and jewels in their art and artifacts.

4th grade Canopic Jars

4th Graders used form to create these clay Egyptian canopic jars. They learned about the Egyptian mummification process, and ancient Egyptian culture. 

5th grade Middle Eastern Tiles

5th grade artists learned about the tiles that were often used in Middle Eastern architecture. They learned that most of them are geometric or floral in design and are also symmetrical. They created their own tiles by rolling out a clay slab and then carving into them, and adding clay designs using the slip, score, seal method.