Clay Radiant Suns

The first graders have been engaged in an exploration of one of their favorite art room materials: clay! In our first session, the first grade artists had the opportunity to play with clay, rehearsing manipulative skills, creating shapes, coils and whatever they could dream up. In our second session, the artists learned the vocabulary words score and slip, which are techniques to join the clay together.

After looking at the inspirational images of Mexican Metepec clay suns, we got to work creating our own clay suns. We can't wait to see what they look like when they come out of the kiln and we get to add beautiful glaze decorations!