Clay Necklace

Description- For this project, we took a section of clay and kneaded the clay to make sure there were no air bubbles. We then took pieces of clay and rolled or formed them around a wooden tool to make the shape of bead that we wanted on your necklace. Forming the clay around the tool allowed us to have a hole to place the piece of yarn through. Once the beads were hardened, we took different colors of tempre paint and painted a design onto the beads. We used the colors of blue, green, yellow, red, white, and black. Once the beads were dry, we placed them in the order we wanted on the piece of yarn and then tied the ends of the yarn together.

Extension Activity: If you are teaching a lesson on social behaviors like respect, friendship, or something along those lines in another subject, you can have the students make either two friendship braclets or some respectful, nice, or friendship based bracelet. You can then have them give it to a classmate as a nice gesture while they keep the other one. You would need to draw names for each student before hand so they do not all choose the same person or pair up and make one for each other. However, with this activity it can really help them be more aware of classmates they may not normally socialize with and it can also teach them the idea of being nice to everyone no matter what.