Surreal Animals

Anna Esteban, Llicència d'estudis a St Helens, 2005-06

To make a surreal animal
To be able to work as a member of a team and make adjustment if it is necessary
To increase imagination and creativity.
To be open and spontaneous

Clay
Clay tools, knife
Towel paper
Paper or cloth for the table.

To experiment with clay ask questions to the students as:

Where can be found clay?
What it's made of?

With some clay in the hands, feel the contact, it's cold, warm, hot.

Remind them about the curative qualities clay has, that it's used as a medicine. The use of clay before and nowadays.
List things that can be done with clay.

Finally talk about the different techniques to use clay and the one they are going to use.

To record the observations and opinions about clay. To list the things they can do using clay.

The children must be seated in a circle, no table is needed. Each one has about half kilo of clay( a tennis ball).
1 - They are asked to form an animal while holding it in their hands. They work using the analytical process where the parts are not attached, but the parts are pinched and pulled out of the clay.
2 - Just as it starts to take form, the teacher ask to pass the clay to the next person.
3 - Then they are asked to look at the animal they've got. It's now yours. Without talking you may change the animal in any way. Others may change the one that it was yours.
4 - As soon as some serious progress is being made, ask them to pass it and repeat the instructions as many times as you think it's necessary.
5 - To add life, suggest them that the animal can be doing something.
6 - When it's finished ask: What is the creature doing? What is its attitude? Afraid, happy, sad. Add small parts and details. And with a pencil add some texture.
7- Each child invents a word for the animal and write it on the clay.

The final work can be fired or when dry paint it.

Play pass the clay to make sculpture of people, toys, objects, pottery.

Clay
Criticism
Aesthetics
Clay methods: Slap, coil, pinch.

Students will be going to answer these questions:

1 - How did you feel when you have asked to pass your creature you've just started?
2 - Was it harder or easier to do that way than to make a piece by yourself?
3 - Select some of the animals and say why?
4 - What did we learn?

Give some time to the children to answer these questions and then share, discuss and feedback.

Sessions	Two
Focus	To make a surreal animal To be able to work as a member of a team and make adjustment if it is necessary To increase imagination and creativity. To be open and spontaneous
Material	Clay Clay tools, knife Towel paper Paper or cloth for the table.
Resources		Webs: The Standards Site Art Education
Talk about	To experiment with clay ask questions to the students as: Where can be found clay? What it's made of? With some clay in the hands, feel the contact, it's cold, warm, hot. Remind them about the curative qualities clay has, that it's used as a medicine. The use of clay before and nowadays. List things that can be done with clay. Finally talk about the different techniques to use clay and the one they are going to use.
Sketchbook	To record the observations and opinions about clay. To list the things they can do using clay.
Doing	The children must be seated in a circle, no table is needed. Each one has about half kilo of clay( a tennis ball). 1 - They are asked to form an animal while holding it in their hands. They work using the analytical process where the parts are not attached, but the parts are pinched and pulled out of the clay. 2 - Just as it starts to take form, the teacher ask to pass the clay to the next person. 3 - Then they are asked to look at the animal they've got. It's now yours. Without talking you may change the animal in any way. Others may change the one that it was yours. 4 - As soon as some serious progress is being made, ask them to pass it and repeat the instructions as many times as you think it's necessary. 5 - To add life, suggest them that the animal can be doing something. 6 - When it's finished ask: What is the creature doing? What is its attitude? Afraid, happy, sad. Add small parts and details. And with a pencil add some texture. 7- Each child invents a word for the animal and write it on the clay. The final work can be fired or when dry paint it.
Developing the idea	Play pass the clay to make sculpture of people, toys, objects, pottery.
Vocabulary and language	Clay Criticism Aesthetics Clay methods: Slap, coil, pinch.	Visual qualities: Shape, form, colour Tactile qualities: hard, soft, rough, smooth, rigid. Work characteristics: unity, variety, movement,
Assessment	Students will be going to answer these questions: 1 - How did you feel when you have asked to pass your creature you've just started? 2 - Was it harder or easier to do that way than to make a piece by yourself? 3 - Select some of the animals and say why? 4 - What did we learn? Give some time to the children to answer these questions and then share, discuss and feedback.