My Grade Ones have been studying the symbols of Canada and I had them design a new Canadian coin to make out of clay. A couple of years ago when we hosted the 2010 Winter Olympics here in Vanccouver I did a similar project, but we designed Olympic medals.
I have been collecting stamps at Michael's on a regular basis. You can't beat $1.50 for a rubber stamp (and sometimes I get them even cheaper!) Amongst my collection I have these wonderful Canadian themed stamps:
I do have a few others but the designs aren't suitable for imprinting in clay.
After looking at the similarities between all our Canadian coins we decided they all neede a picture/symbol, the word Canada, and a value. Student used small letter set stamps for the words.
We fired the finished coins once and then painted with metalic acrylic paint - which got many ooohs and aaahs!
What kind of clay did you use on the Canada coins?
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Low fire ceramic clay, most likely an Amaco brand bought at Michael's. I do not use air dry clay for clay tile type projects anymore. I find it too fragile.
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