PBL: ClayTales — Day 4
Date: 17th October, 2022; Monday.
Facilitators: Auindrilla, Sanmoyee, Drishti, and Priyanka.
Participants: Adrived, Dhriya, Divit, Hazzel, Maryam, Meher, Nitara, Parth, Rishit, Ruhani, Shannaya, Sharlav, Shivansh, Shivanshika, Shivanyaa, Taanush, and Vaanya.
Tags: art, sensory, pbl
Welcome to Day 4 of ClayTales! Our Arthlings have harnessed the creative power of clay to tell their stories! They must now settle on a final form for their ClayTale.
PLANNING AND SETUP
Building My ClayTale: Moist clay was divided and kept ready for use. Trays were arranged with wooden stamps, silicone moulds, leaves, twigs, shells, rollers, string, wooden knives, safety scissors, and cookie cutters. Jute sacks were provided as a surface to work on. Rectangles of brown card were kept ready to make bases for the children’s ClayTales.
HOW IT HAPPENED
The children were greeted with fresh lumps of moist clay for use. Each Arthling cycled through various elements before settling on a final idea!
The class saw a whole menu of clay food. Dhriya made cupcakes, while Rishit and Nitara made maggi. Divit, Hazzel, Rishit, and Ruhani made pizza, but Divit, Hazzel, Nitara, Rishit, and Vaanya also made ice cream! Nitara made a criss-cross pattern for her cone with Drishti Didi.
There was also plenty of non-food inspiration! Maryam created a fountain, located in a garden and decorated with flowers. Parth made a cow that finished as a car! Hazzel, Shivanyaa, and Vaanya finally settled on gardens. Divit and Meher used cutters to make shapes, after which Divit made a house with stars and hearts!
Divit moulds his clay.
Divit uses a cookie cutter!
Divit and his creation pose for the camera!
Rishit and his ClayTale.
Hazzel uses a tool…
…To carefully slice the clay!
Vaanya uses cookie cutters.
Ruhani decorates her ClayTale.
Dhriya and Shannaya experiment with scissors.
Maryam and her fountain!
Shivanyaa and her garden!
Parth and his ClayTale.
SKILLS USED
Fine motor skills
Hand-eye coordination
Cooperation
Creativity
Curiosity and exploration
OUTCOME AND FUTURE
This episode saw our Arthlings applying their collection of recently-acquired techniques to create their own ClayTales! One of the goals of PBL is to encourage transfer of theoretical learnings to real-life scenarios.
Join us on our next episode to see more Project Based Learning in action!