{"id":1694,"date":"2016-01-04T19:57:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T03:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2016-01-04T19:57:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T03:57:45","slug":"clay-snowpeople","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/2016\/01\/04\/clay-snowpeople\/","title":{"rendered":"Clay Snowpeople"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We spent several days in December working on the students&#8217; presents to their families. \u00a0For many of the students this was their first experience working with clay.<\/p>\n<p>Students began by building the clay into three rings around a wooden doweling form. They learned how to join the clay sections and make it smooth with small bits of water. They pulled out &#8216;carrot&#8217; noses and then created hats for their people. \u00a0Holes were put into the sides of the snow people and the students&#8217; initials were carved onto the bottom of the forms.<\/p>\n<p>These clay forms needed to spend a week drying in the class before they were put into the school&#8217;s kiln where they underwent their first &#8216;firing&#8217;. \u00a0When they came out of the kiln the students glazed them, and their hats, and then they went back into the kiln for their second (and last) firing.<\/p>\n<p>Students collected twigs from the playground which were used for the snow-people&#8217;s arms. \u00a0Students made felt scarves by gluing small bits of felt onto a longer piece. They chose three pom poms for the buttons and used a black Sharpie pen to draw on the mouths. \u00a0When the pieces were all put together the snow people all looked very festive indeed!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_4629.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1695\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_4629-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4629\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_4629-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_4629.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_4630.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1696\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_4630-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4630\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_4630-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_4630.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope you all enjoy having these as part of your holiday celebrations for years to come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent several days in December working on the students&#8217; presents to their families. \u00a0For many of the students this was their first experience working with clay. Students began by building the clay into three rings around a wooden doweling form. They learned how to join the clay sections and make it smooth with small &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/2016\/01\/04\/clay-snowpeople\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clay Snowpeople<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,5,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1698,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/temples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}