Slab Vase Clay vessels have forever been examples of a culture's ability to combine art and function. Students in the lower grades must start to learn the most crude and basic coil pots, pinch pots and slab bowls http: //dickblick.com/lessonplans/2005slabvase/...
Burlap Figures 7-12 .Based on the sculpture of Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz, students create a 3-dimensional figure study in fiber. http: //cdn.dickblick.com/lessonplans/pdfs/burlap_s...
Free-Form Stencil Drawing 5-12. Choose three shapes from a design and build a new composition by repeating and combining these shapes to communicate an idea or story http: //cdn.dickblick.com/lessonplans/pdfs/free_ste...
Bead Bottles Bead bottles are the result of studying Huichol beaded gourds. Their technique can be applied to 3D objects available to students. Hours and hours of dedication are involved in the small bottle art http: //cdn.dickblick.com/lessonplans/pdfs/beadbott...
Talking Rocks This lesson can be linked with Southwest culture studies and the students can imitate the symbols used by those tribes or students can be challenged to come up with their own word pictures that communicate information or reveal something about themselves. http: //cdn.dickblick.com/lessonplans/pdfs/talking_...
Torn Paper Collage Books An easy bookmaking lesson that works across the entire curriculum. Students make books to use as journals or scrapbooks and fill with personnel stories or poetry, sketches or photos. http: //cdn.dickblick.com/lessonplans/pdfs/tornpape...
