Gingerbread family

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?”

GingerA spice from Indo-Malaysia

Gingerbread History

In 2000 B.C. wealthy Greek familiessailed to the Isle of Rhodes

to get spiced honey cakesMade from ginger!

In the 11th Cpilgrims & soldiersintroduced gingerTo Europeans

•as candy •And to sooth upset stomach

Hundred years later… bread crumbswere added to the mixture

And… gingerbread was born.

How to make clay Gingerbread people

Wedge Clay

Check for air pockets

Make slabs (flat pieces of clay)

Cut into gingerbread

people & animalsshapes

Score cross hatch lines in clay

add slip water down clayto attach pieces

Using UNDERGLAZE

Decorate your clay-make it look like a candyginger bread person &

animal

Write names

of family members

& pets on

each clay person/animal

Write a paragraph- (using underglaze)

Why is your home-home sweet home?”

Bas-relief?When somethingis raised from a flat surface

Wedge?Removeair pockets

Air Pockets?Air trapped in clay

Slip?Watered down clayUsed as a clay glue

Score?Cross hatch lines to join

Kiln?Oven clay is fired

Underglaze?Paint used first before clay is fired

Ginger?Spice