Unit Overview: Students will learn about face jugs from the South in the United States during the 1800's. Students will examine what makes a face jug different from other jugs in history. Students will create their own face jar based on the face jugs of the South during the 1800's in order to demonstrate self-expression, creativity, and 3-D building techniques. Students at this school did not have access to clay or a kiln. This makes doing 3-D 'ceramic' projects very hard. I, personally, am not a big fan of "Model Magic" or air dry clay bodies. Coming into this school, there was an abundance of one material called "Cellu-clay", a paper-mache like medium that smears on like clay. Since the resident art teacher at this school wished to use up this material completely, I planned my 'ceramic' projects for my students around this material. Because "Cellu-clay" needs a base solid structure in order to build, I planned for my students to make face jars using glass jars (pickle, salsa, marinara, olive, etc. jars that had been collected over a long period of time), "Cellu-clay", and paint. This third grade class did an amazing job with a material they had never handled before. This material was difficult, gross, and messy at times. But it produced beautiful and creative works of art. The students succeeded in creative problem solving to make these incredible works.
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