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Gingerbread family. Must include. Family members Self Pets As gingerbread people/animals. Requirements. Look like Candy Gingerbread people & animals. Written paragraph: “Why is your home Home Sweet Home?”. Ginger A spice from Indo-Malaysia . Gingerbread History.
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Must include Family members Self Pets As gingerbread people/animals
Requirements • Look like • Candy Gingerbread people & animals
Written paragraph: “Why is your home Home Sweet Home?”
GingerA spice from Indo-Malaysia
In 2000 B.C. wealthy Greek families sailed to the Isle of Rhodes
to get spiced honey cakes Made from ginger!
In the 11th C pilgrims & soldiers introduced ginger To Europeans
as candy • And to sooth upset stomach
Hundred years later… bread crumbs were added to the mixture
And… gingerbread was born.
Check for air pockets
Make slabs (flat pieces of clay)
Score cross hatch lines in clay
add slip water down clay to attach pieces
Using UNDERGLAZE Decorate your clay- make it look like a candy ginger bread person & animal
Write namesof family members& pets on each clay person/animal
Write a paragraph- (using underglaze) Why is your home-home sweet home?”
Bas-relief? When something is raised from a flat surface
Wedge? Remove air pockets
Air Pockets? Air trapped in clay
Slip? Watered down clay Used as a clay glue
Score? Cross hatch lines to join
Kiln? Oven clay is fired
Underglaze? Paint used first before clay is fired