Fused Glass Birds
Fused Glass birds assignment for grade 7 & 8 students. Templates were used for scoring the basic bird shape. Birds were full fused and then various pieces were tac fused. Students had access to frit, stingers, rods, glassline paper, paint…
Glass Coasters
Slumped Bottles
Students love this project, as there are so many things we can do with a slumped bottle! Students choose a bottle to wash and dry. Often these need to be soaked overnight so the paper and glue can be removed.…
Islamic Design Dishes
These dishes are a great intro to scoring float glass and using glassline paint. Students first research an Islamic style design of their choice. Glass pieces are scored to the size of 4″ x 4″ so the design may need…
Glass Book Covers
Students love doing this group project in glass. First students research an interesting book cover they would like to duplicate using a variety of glass types. The criteria is that the book cover should be recognizable, but as artists they…
Glass Islamic Design Tile
Students got a chance to look at various Islamic designs. Looking at the main components found in this style of art, students chose one that they wanted to emulate. Enlarging their design on paper first, students then created their color…
Art Glass Pendants
Students scored a piece of colored art glass and a piece of clear art glass to the same size. Then placed in the kiln. This project has been a great started project, as the process if quite simple, and the…
Clay Bird Bath with Glass
This fun project involved clay and glass. Students researched birdbaths and birds of their choice. After cutting and pasting several examples in their sketchbook to use as reference, students drew a plan of their birdbath in their sketchbooks. Then students…
Grinder Maintentance
Grinder Maintenance
Birds on a Wire
We made these glass birds for an exhibit called “Birds On A Wire”. We started with researching some bird pictures, and getting a color scheme in mind. We drew up a plan for our bird, which included color scheme and…
