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Making Activities Project Three for Schools with Ceramics Facilities: Working with texture and pattern Suitable for key stage 1 and up Overview Clay is a wonderful medium. To start with, it is soft and malleable, and can be worked and pushed into many shapes and forms. Once dry, it retains that form, and once fired, it becomes hard, strong and durable. It is the perfect medium to experiment with and learn about “texture". Materials needed: Paper Pencils / crayons Clay / glaze – lead free Rolling pin Rolling guides Wooden boards / cloths to roll out on Various tools and found items for pressing into the surface of the clay. Bring in things like shells, combs, screws, stones, lace, pine cones, old broken bits of wood, small toys such as farmyard animals, leaves etc. Pupils should also look around the art room for items to use to texture the clay.