This was a fun part of David Livingstone Academy’s recent Art Week for Year 3.  The theme was music and dance and each pupils was asked to draw and design a plaque which they then made in clay.

Since the school does not have a kiln, we had to use a different technique in order to display our pieces outside on the school wall.  We painted each of the clay pieces with several layers of liquid latex to make a mould.

Then we took the clay out and filled our moulds with CreaStone which is weather fast outside once dry.  CreaStone is a gritty powder that is added to water in order to make a ‘porridge’  that you leave to harden in the mould   Once that was done the pupils took their CreaStone plaques out of the latex moulds and painted them!

Here are some of them with their latex moulds.  The finished plaques are now on the school walls for parents and visitors to admire.