As mentor you must, or ocassionally inspire your students 
with new ideas. You will be able to help and motivate them 
in creating their own idea and design.
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That is really clever. The kids all made beautiful and realistic
 looking fish. :) I love admiring kids artwork. I always take the 
time to look at it when they have displays at the mall or 
the library.

 
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That is so great! I know my grandsons and neices just
 love playing with PC and have been pleasantly surprised
 by some of their results. The children's projects are so cute 
and what great inspiration! :-)

Thanks, not all the kids are able to concentrate on their 
homeworks or art projects, creating an interesting subject 
for boys and girls is very important it will help them to stay
 focus in their project. The interesting subject will help them 
to craft their skills and make better crafts.

We must inspire our students or our children to create 
or play with anything, be it music, drawing or clay, t
he fun of anything will help them to excel, even the 
simplest art works can be fun and interesting to them.

Your influence is a totally wonderful influence---I love how 
the kids have worked with the components....keep up the 
good influence on their creativity!!. Thank you for posting 
these cute ideas.....and the place you teach looks like a 
dream come true - so many colors and so many pictures 
all over the rooms - an .excellent way for art to flourish........

Wow! The children's creations are quite impressive. 
What a lovely idea. Thanks for posting.
What are the magnets for?

Thanks Rickie, for your kind remarks. Teaching kid to built 
different parts and fix them together into a complete project, 
is an excellent way for students to expand their idea in PC 
creation. Teaching them about the PC material, that you can 
bake them many times as long as the temperature is set 
correctly. That you can also superglue them and still able 
to bake in the oven. Student must understand the 
characteristic of the clay medium that they are using.

Thank You, about the use of magnets, there are two different 
age group in the Magnetic Picture Box Aquarium project, 
kids that are about 6 years old and kids that are about 10 
years old. The younger age will create 2D fishes and the 
older or experience student will create 3D fishes. To make 
the MPBA more interesting the magnets will interact with 
another magnet concealed below the box. Magnets will 
always position the two dimentional clay fish to the front 
position. By pulling the strings there is an interaction 
between both magnets, making a flipping movement with 
the fish. As for the three diamentional fish, the tiny magnets 
is concealed in the dolphin mouth. You need to position 
another magnet below the dolphin's mouth, the dolphin 
will flip as it comes into contact with the other magnet, by 
regulating the nylon string.

I hope this will answer your question about the magnets.

Yes! To have the fun in teaching the children, 
you must enjoy the fun in using Polymer Clay.

Cool idea Garie! Kudos on teaching kids that 
little extra something. Way to go!!!!

great job and so true! I just did polymer as a visiting artist
 in a local school taught 500 kids in two days just to get 
them interested... it was fun but tiring! we did canes and 
then photo frames it was amazing to see the lights go on 
with so many young ones!

Debbie C
 
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Thanks Pam, when kids are so interested in polymer clay creation, 
we have to create something interesting for their lessons.

Thanks, I admire your stamina, teaching 500 kids in two 
day is not easy . Keep it up!

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