Second and Third Grade Clay Pandas - Take Two!

Our China Unit continued with an exploration of Pandas. We watched videos, painted them in the Chinese style and then sculpted them out of clay. Our first batch of pandas had a rough time in the kiln and we loss many of our sculptures. This was an opportunity to explore the science of clay and evaporation as well as artist's need for perseverance. We made a second round of bears and they made the journey for a second time to Fleming to be fired in the kiln. Success, all the pandas made it through without any damage. When they came back to Summit we painted them with black and white acrylic paint in a realistic way.