Lesson Plan Title: Clay Face Sculpting

By Katie Temple

 Materials: Clay, squirt-bottle of water, hands

 Grade: 4-8

Vocabulary: proportions, balance, symmetry, form, texture

Objectives:

• Students learn facial proportions and how that relates to a three-dimensional form.
• Use hand-building techniques to explore the steps to construct a 3D self-portrait.

Directions:

• Pass out softball size chunk of clay to each student
• View Basic Sculpting Tutorial Video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_b0ox7RgXw
• Once workshop is complete, have students place into ball and hand clay back to instructor.

Reflection: As students are creating features, have them discuss what techniques they are using. For example, a student has an expressionistic hair-do on their face, have the student discuss how they created it.

Support:

One of the best ways to learn how to 3D sculpt is to watch YouTube videos