When a grotesque mysteriously turns up in your classroom and asks you to make him some friends, it’s time to dig the clay out…
While sculpture projects are often great fun for children, especially when they get their hands on clay, modroc and sculpting mesh, it can often be hard for teachers to find purposeful, relevant and meaningful contexts for them.
As a result, it is common for clay activities to be associated with festivities, such as Christmas or Easter, where decorative objects can be made, or children are encouraged to make pinch pots or tiles with scrawled designs.
However, the book Night of the Gargoyles by Eve Bunting provides a fun and motivational context for a sculpture project that also links perfectly with cross-curricular English learning.
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