Several weeks ago 3rd & 4th graders made clay turtles using a coil technique.
This week we are trying out a new way of coloring clay that I have seen all over the inter webs(thanks Pinterest!
After looking at many pictures of turtles on the iPads and noting their unique shell textures, we wanted to achieve this look on the clay turtles. So, instead of paint or glaze, we used crayons and then a wash of black watercolor.
Students had to add several layers of crayon in order to fill in as much of the surface as possible.
Here are a few finished turtles after their dive into the paint bucket!
We were all quite happy with the results, and I think will be experimenting with this some more!
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