Sculpture and 3D: Creation station

Exploring the sculptural qualities of malleable materials and natural objects; developing the use of tools and joining techniques; designing and making clay animal sculptures. 

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Lesson 1: Clay

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Lesson 2: Playdough

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Lesson 3: 3D landscape art

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Lesson 4: Designing animal sculptures

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Lesson 5: Creating animal sculptures

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Lesson 6: Painting animal sculptures

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Key skills

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Key knowledge

  • Form: Modelling materials
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Equipment list

Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.

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  • Modelling clay ×30
  • Tuff tray or other flat clean surface
  • Playdough ×30
  • Playdough tools ×1
  • Natural loose materials For example, leaves, twigs, petals, seed pods, bark etc.
  • Pva glue, pots and spreaders ×1
  • Sticky back plastic
  • A selection of small world animals
  • Pictures of animals
  • Air dry clay ×30
  • Paintbrushes ×30
  • Poster or acrylic paint
  • Water pots
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