Classroom Activities

Featured Projects

Ceramic Tile Wall Murals

Spoon Printing Lithography - a printmaking experience for Elementary Students

Portraits in Clay - a lesson in sculpture for Elementary Students

Dig This! - a relief sculpture of dinosaur bones for Elementary Students

A Passion of Pots - a lesson in glaze decorations for students of all ages

Beautiful Beads - a lesson in making beads

Clay Animation - an interdisciplinary lesson

Creating Cast Paper Sculpture - a simple lesson in papermaking and moldmaking

The Fascinating World of Insects - a lesson in bug making with clay

Cave Art Revisited - a lesson in recreating prehistoric art

The Intricate Art of Persian Tiles

Creating Relief Sculpture - a lesson in sculpture and moldmaking

Recreating Chinese Bronze Vessels

A New Approach to Developing Images on Clay

Sculptural Heads - a lesson in creating life-size heads

Mi Casa es Tu Casa - a lesson in creating small animated houses with clay

Warm Glass Renaissance - modern technology brings back an ancient glass art form

Students experience Monet's work by painting with watercolors and torn paper in this lesson

This Collage lesson helps students create Paper Mosaic Animals

This lesson idea is on Color and Paint Palettes

Students print meaningful geometric Adinka Design patterns in the Ashanti tradition in this multi-disciplinary lesson

The secret ingredient in this painted stained glass window idea is cooking oil

Herring Designs, LLC is offering free SlabMats to teachers for clay projects. These are flawed, but usable HandBuilding mats for clay projects.

Checkout SlabMat information on the website: www.HerringDesigns.com
To get free SlabMats contact Herring Designs via phone, email or snail mail:

Herring Designs, LLC
PO Box 3009
Breckenridge, CO 80424-3009
PH 970-547-4835
FAX - 775-206-7526
PJH.MAE@AYA.YALE.EDU