Title: Coil Pots
Unit: African Art Unit
Grade Levels: 2nd-3rd
Medium: Model Magic
Suggested Time: 2 class periods
Instructional Objectives:
2.A.5 Modeling: Build a form using a coil technique
3.B.3 Create a container (e.g. paper box, clay pot, fiber basket)
Elements of Art: Texture, Shape, Form
Principles of Design: Repetition, Pattern, Unity
Materials and Equipment: Model Magic and a hard, flat surface
General Vocabulary: Coil, three-dimensional, additive sculpture
Art Production:
For students who are gifted: Have the student paint their model magic pot and build their pot at least 6 inches tall and have at least 8 coils.
Unit: African Art Unit
Grade Levels: 2nd-3rd
Medium: Model Magic
Suggested Time: 2 class periods
Instructional Objectives:
2.A.5 Modeling: Build a form using a coil technique
3.B.3 Create a container (e.g. paper box, clay pot, fiber basket)
Elements of Art: Texture, Shape, Form
Principles of Design: Repetition, Pattern, Unity
Materials and Equipment: Model Magic and a hard, flat surface
General Vocabulary: Coil, three-dimensional, additive sculpture
Art Production:
- Show students examples of actual coil pots that they can touch. Show students pictures of others from the internet as well. Show students what coils look like.
- The students will build and create a container using the coil technique with model magic.
- Tell the students that they need to build their base of their container first
- Tell the students to be creative and come up with their own design.
- Show students how to roll model magic
- Start with the coil or snake
- roll with 1 hand
- Goal is to make it a little thinner than pinky finger
- Curl the coil into a spiral
- Start with 1 end and curve it in "like a snail"
- Walk around the classroom and make sure that the students are doing the base correctly.
- Have the students make their pots individually and work on making their coils correctly
- Have the students place their pots on a table to dry. Talk with the students about ways that they see coils in society or ways that they think coils would be useful structurally.
- Ask the students if they have seen any coil pots before today
- Ask the students if they know why the coils might be useful in building a structure
- Ask the students if they think this would be more efficient
- Ask the students to rate themselves on this project by having them place their heads on the desk and holding up a number 1-5. Look around the room and see how they self reflect.
- Ask the students if they have seen any coil pots before today
For students who are gifted: Have the student paint their model magic pot and build their pot at least 6 inches tall and have at least 8 coils.