Free Waldorf Clay Modeling Lesson

Try out this free Waldorf clay modeling lesson and see how simple and easy working with clay can be for you and your homeschool child. This lesson is for parents and teachers in any educational setting who want to bring clay modeling to their own program.
Be sure to see more notes from the course creator at the bottom of this description.
What you will learn:
--The advantages and challenges to modeling with natural clays
--The advantages and challenges to modeling with polymer clays
--The creation of basic forms (sphere, egg, bowl, etc) and their use in creating more complex modeling projects
--Greater manual dexterity and fine motor coordination
This course takes the student, step by step, through the process of developing skills and dexterity for modeling with clay. The projects start very simply and continue building upon the previously practiced skills for the completion of more complex projects. These lessons are also designed to allow for flexibility. For example, a child might struggle with the diamondback pattern on a rattlesnake. If so, the project can be simplified to just modeling the shape of the snake with the rattler tail, leaving out the patterning.
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More from the course creator:
36 basic lessons for beginners to learn about clay modeling. All 36 lessons take a student from start to finish with each project, starting simply in order to develop the skills and dexterity needed for some more complicated projects later on. The projects are all suitable to be performed with either natural clay or polymer clay and both of these clays are used in different lessons as a demonstration.
This course focuses only on the modeling, not any of the various "finishing" procedures that could be undertaken, such as kiln firing, glazing, drying, painting, etc. In this course we just model the different projects by hand and with a very simply plastic sculpting tool that can be purchased inexpensively from any craft store.
This course is suitable for any age from 6 up. That being said, people have different abilities; so an adult may choose to simplify a project for a student who struggles. For example, the last lesson in this course is a diamondback rattlesnake. The snake body, even the tail, would be achievable by almost all students, but the diamondback patterning on the body can be much more challenging. So, a parent/teacher may choose to leave out the patterning and just stop with the body shape. In this way, the lessons can be adapted to meet the students optimally.

[@rahulpotter1]

Very well done

[@SimplyWaldorf]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@user-li8qc8ik5q]

Beautiful swan!! Where is a good place to get clay?