These Are a Hoot...

3rd graders just completed their ceramic owls.  I am attaching a paper clip to the back of them so that they can be hung as an ornament (a very heavy one) or hung on the wall with a push pin. 

Instead of glaze, students colored the owls with oil pastel and the painted them with a watered down black acrylic paint/India ink mixture.  They were then washed off and the black paint soaked into all of the nooks and crannies of their project giving them a weathered look.  

Students had so much fun making these!!!  What child doesn't like playing with clay?