Texture Shoe-prints create amazing pendants or ornaments. Kinders had their first chance to roll and squish clay for this project. We talked about textures, how does it feel on our fingers... lumpy, bumpy, soft, smooth, furry, fuzzy, scratchy, rough. Everyone investigated the textures on the bottom their shoes. The texture from the shoes was pressed into the clay ball leaving a shoe-print.
The shoe-prints were 'fired' in the kiln. The kiln is a neat machine that gets really hot to make the clay really hard like a rock.
Then, we set up a glazing station.
Glaze is like a special kind of paint for clay. The glazed clay shoe-prints were loaded back into the kiln to 'fire' once again and to melt the glaze so it turns into glass.
With a little help, bits of yarn was glued to the back so they will be easy to hang.
Today everyone created an Origami pocket to safely take the ornament and poem home. Origami is the art of folding paper, no cutting, gluing, or taping needed to make something special.
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