Description: for this activity we looked at the artist Maria Martinez. She was a clay artist who used her hands and simple designs to create clay pots. We brainstormed simple designs that we can use for our pot and then got to working on our succulents. To start we took a ball of clay and worked with it by rolling and tossing it onto the table to work all of the air bubbles out of the clay. After the clay was ready we used our fingers to pinch the clay in the form of a pot. We wanted the pot to have decent thickness on the sides and bottom to hold the succulent that we were adding to the top. After we had the pot how we wanted we pick one design from our brainstorming and added them to our pot. Then we flipped it over and started creating the leaves for the succulent. To make a leaf we took the clay and rolled it into a snake and then flattened it out with our fingers. Then to place the leaves onto the pot we scored the leaves and the pot and then added water to attach the leaves. Once we had our succulents how we wanted them, we could decorate them and paint them how we wanted. I liked the simplicity of a clay pot with a green succulent, so that is how i decorated it.
Extension Activity: We could use this activity to create a plant we have talked about during our science time. While we talk about the life cycle of plants we could create small clay sculptures like this one to display the different parts of a plants life cycle.
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