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Notebook, 1993-

MATERIALS & METHODS - A Perspective on Art Education - Activities for Children - Themes & Topics

Drawing & Painting -- Modeling & Sculpting

Fingerpainting -- Mural Making -- Paper-Mâché -- Puppets -- Mask-Making -- Crayon Encaustics -- Crayon Resist Drawing -- Crayon Sgraffito -- Collage -- Mobiles -- Watercolor -- Common Earth Clay -- Salt Ceramic [recipe] -- Clay / plasticene Non-hardening -- Carving in the Round -- Newspaper Modeling -- Paraffin or Wax Sculpture -- Plaster Plaques or Reliefs -- Relief in Plaster -- Relief in Soft Wood -- Concret or Zonolite Sculpting -- Repoussé -- Sandcasting -- Working With the Coping Saw or Jigsaw -- Straw/Toothpick Sculpting -- Painting on Window Glass -- Diorama -- Peep Shows -- Whittling -- Wire Sculpture

[From: [Meaning in Crafts. Mattil,, Edward L. Chairman, Dept. of Art, North Texas State University. Third Edition, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1971.]

Diorama


A peep show may be used in a large box with slight modifications if an entire side of the box is opened or if the lid of the box is not used and the box stands on its side. When the scene is constructed, the opening can be covered with a piece of cellophane, which provides a barrier between the viewer and the scene and gives the feeling of looking into another world. This diorama makes a fine group project in the same way that a cut paper mural does. In the study of a unit on a country, the festivals, holdiays, national customs for example, the children may wish to construct a diorama as a culmination of all they have thought and learned from research and discussion during the study of the unit. Perhaps this time they can model larger figures, using the salt ceramic formula. Such activities enrich any learning situation and give the children a deeper feeling of identification with the things they study and make for a happier, more useful learning environment.

[Meaning in Crafts. Mattil,, Edward L. Chairman, Dept. of Art, North Texas State University. Third Edition, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1971.]




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