Art: Greek Style Tiles

About a month ago when we started our Ancient Greece unit (which we're finally finishing up now), we had a scheduled art project for making a Greek-type tile, and it sounded like fun so we went for it! The instructions were pretty simple and we got them from an Ancient Greek Art book at the library. All we needed was Air Drying Clay, something "sharp" to be able to cut a pattern in the clay (we used a butter knife), and paint. The Air Dry clay comes in a big block and I just cut a square off of each and and pounded it out into a rectangle with my fist until it was more-or-less a rectangle that was flat. They each decided on their own design to cut out, then we let the clay air dry (we let ours dry for a full day and a bit more and it was totally hard and dry). When it was dry we got out the paint and they colored their tiles how they wanted. Once the paint was dry they were done and beautiful! Here are the pictures of (most of) the process. :-)