3rd grade-Clay Frog Wall Pockets.

We started this lesson my talking about relief sculpture, relief sculpture is a 3-D object but the back is flat.

We rolled out a big slab of clay. Using this slab of clay we cut out one square, one big arch, and one little arch, I had templates of all of these for the students to trace. 

We then folded the big arch over our hand to bend it into a pocket and attached it to the middle of the square slab by scoring a slipping. This is the body of the frog. Next, we cut the small arch in half to create the legs and used a wooden stick tool to add the toes. We added the legs to each side of the body by scoring and slipping. Last students added details such as toynges, eyes, and flies.

The following clay, we painted the frogs using tempra paint.