Museum Treasure Hunt: Ceramics!

Museum Treasure Hunt: Ceramics! can be printed out before going to see a collection with children. Other resources for children from designivspace.org before or after going to see a ceramics collection is Children’s Books on Ceramics and Make! Clay.

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Ceramics are important because they have been around thousands of years and have been made all over the world. Clay, the material for ceramics, is found all over the world.

Chances are, just like children from all different points in history and all over the world, you use ceramics in your daily life.

While the size, shape, glaze, decoration, and form can be unique, ceramics are designs that many people enjoy. Just as you can express yourself by making something out of clay, when you look at a ceramic you can ask: what was the person (potter / ceramist / painter / designer) trying to express when he or she made a specific ceramic?

Here is the DIVS: Children’s Space – Museum Treasure Hunt, find all the things on the list!

1. A ceramic that is bigger than your hand.
2. A ceramic that is smaller than your hand.
3. A ceramic with one of the following colors in its glaze: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, black, silver, white.
4. A ceramic that is only one color.
5. A ceramic that has 2 colors.
6. A ceramic that can hold something (water, tea, coffee, rice /grain, oil, flowers) What do you think it could hold?
7. A ceramic that does not hold something.
8. A ceramic that has people on it.
9. A ceramic that has an animal on it.
10. A ceramic with a handle.

Draw a ceramic from the collection.

Draw your own ceramic design.