Grade: 4-6
Age: 8-10

Submitted by: Christine Pang, a homeschooler from Hong Kong.

Objectives:

What You Need:

• a packet of paperclay®
• water paint or poster color, gloss paint
• a piece of thread
• a piece of thin wire
• plastic knife or toothpicks

What You Do:

1. Take out a piece of paperclay®, about the size of a golf ball.

2. Let the students roll and fold the paperclay® in their hands.

3. Have them pull and push the paperclay® to release any air that is inside the clay.

4. When the clay gets dry or hard to push, add one or two drops of water to the clay and repeat the above process.

5. Flatten 1/3 of the clay to make the ground.

6. Make some small balls of clay for rocks.

7. Circle up the small rocks on the side of the ground as a pond.

8. Put one or two bigger rocks next to the pond.

9. Use the rest of the 1/3 of clay to shape an old fisherman sitting on one of the rock.

10. Roll some clay onto a small piece of wire (1-1.5 inches long) as the fishing rock.

11. Pin in the fishing rock into the hands of the fisherman.

12. Fix the fisherman onto the rock with a piece of wire (pin one end of the wire into the fisherman's hip and the other end into the rock).

13. The plastic knife or the toothpick can help to shape the minor parts of the model.

14. All the parts can be "glued" together with a drop of water before they dry, if they are dried, then they can be "glued" together with white glue.

15. Knot one end of the thread to the fishing rod, the other end stick into the pond.

16. Let the model dry for 1-2 days.

17. Paint the model with paint and add a coat of gloss paint to protect the model.

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