Soapstone sculptures
This experiment trains both the children’s sight, motoric skills and crafting/creation abilities. It allows for the children to follow the transformational process of a material into an artwork of their very own imagination.
Quick facts about the experiment:
| Target group |
Children 10-16 years old, max 16 persons
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| Facilitator |
Teacher / special education teacher
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| Time scale |
60-120 minutes
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| Location |
classroom or individual therapy room
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| Goal |
Training sight, crafting skills and abillity to transform a hard materiel into something of your own choosing. Practicing motor skills.
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| Materials |
Soapstones, carving instruments (files/tools), beeswax or leather grease and cloth/fabric to rub beeswax or leather grease on the sculpture/tupilak with, paper, pencils.
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How to:
- Pick a soapstone that you like. Look at it and touch it. Maybe it has an expression inside of it that you want to bring out of it?
- Think about what would be your “power symbol”. What symbol represents you the best? It could be an animal or other types of symbols; heart, star, eye and so on or something you like about yourself.
- Make a sketch on a piece of paper of what you want to carve out of the soapstone.
- Carve the soapstone into either what you see in it, your power animal, a symbol or something you like about yourself. Talk aboout your stones. Why did you choose to carve this symbol, animal, thing?
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Ezt nagyon szóvesen kipróbálnám én is a csoportommal, köszönöm a szuper ötletet!
In my opinion the children will like it so we will try this project.
Wonderful idea, using everyday objects to make art 🙂