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ACTIVITY 1
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Mila Explains Sculpture

ACTIVITY 2
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Maths With Miss Mala!

ACTIVITY 3
Mental Gymnastics With Miss Meridiem
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ACTIVITY 4
Sculptures With Officer Michael
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ACTIVITY 5
Fun With Ezra!
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BONUS
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Stickers
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ACTIVITY 1 Mila Explains Sculpture

SCULP URES
It is fun to play with clay or play dough. We can make so many
things, explore new ideas and do it over and over again until
we make the object that we want to make. Do you know that
there is a visual art form called sculpture that is similar to this?
It's all about making things that have length, width and height.
The artist who makes sculptures is called a sculptor.
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Sculpture is made by carving, modelling, casting and construction.

CARVING
When a sculpture is made by carving, it means that the
sculptor has cut or scraped bits and pieces of solid materials
like stone or wood to make the sculpture.

CASTING
When the sculptors want to make a sculpture using casting,
they make a mould and pour a liquid material like molten
metal or glass into the mould. Since moulds can be used many
times, many replicas of a sculpture can be made.

MODELLING
Another popular form of making sculptures is through
modelling. When sculptors work on soft materials like clay,
they shape it instead of carving it. It gives the sculptors
the freedom to reshape if they want to change something,
unlike scraping and cutting.

CONSTRUCTION
Besides this, sculptors sometimes also make sculptures
from different materials and objects they find by using different
techniques such as welding, nailing or glueing.
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Sculpting as an art has been around for a long time in India.

Different time periods of India have been beautifully captured
in these sculptures. The earliest sculptures in India are from
the Indus Valley Civilization. Many terracotta, stone and bronze
figurines have been discovered at these sites. Many seals
of different shapes and sizes have also been found. On these seals,
there are pictures of animals or people and an inscription that
no one has figured out yet.

Terracotta (noun) - Red-brown clay that is used for making pots, etc.

Figurine (noun) - A small statue of a person or an animal

Inscription (noun) - Words written on the front of a book or cut into

stone or metal

The Buddhist emperor Ashoka had monolithic sandstone pillars

built. They were 30–40 feet tall. On top of these pillars were statues
of animals like the bull, lion and elephant. These animals seem real
and lively if you look closely. Buddhist ideas of morality, humanity
and piety are written on them.

Monolithic (adjective) - Used to describe large single vertical blocks

of stone
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Seal : Elephant and inscription (Indus script). Made of stone (steatite). Harappan civilization, from
Mohenjo-daro. British Museum, 1947,0416.5.

Source: Zunkir, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Seal : Elephant and inscription (Indus script) Composition of signs / armorial bearings.
Made of stone (steatite). Harappan civilization, Mold of a seal, Indus valley civilization, 2500-1500
from Mohenjo-daro. British Museum, 1947,0416.5. BC. State Museum, Bhopal. India.

Source: Zunkir, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Zunkir, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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During the Gupta period, along with other art forms, sculpture
also flourished. During this time, sculpting styles, types and ideas
of beauty became more clear and refined. That is one of the reasons
Gupta sculpture is considered important in Indian history.

During the time of the Mughals and other rulers, there was no big
movement in sculpture, but it managed to survive. Today, the visual
art of sculpture is strongly influenced by modern, eclectic and
international concepts.

Eclectic (adjective) - Not sticking to one style or set of ideas,

but using many different ones.
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REFERENCE:
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/ | https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/sculpture/353751
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/sculpture | https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/sculpture-of-india.pdf
https://ancientindianwisdom.com/culture/indian-sculpture | https://ccrtindia.gov.in/indus-civilization-sculpture/
https://ccrtindia.gov.in/buddhist-sculpture/ | https://ccrtindia.gov.in/gupta-sculpture/
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Blazon._Mold_of_Seal%2C_Indus_valley_civilization.JPG
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Elephant_harappan_seal_-_BM.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cylinder_seal_Indus_1960_0718_1_1.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Sarnath_capital.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Gupta_Sculpture%2C_4th-7th_Century_-_33513844192.jpg
https://ccrtindia.gov.in/medieval-school-of-sculpture/
https://ccrtindia.gov.in/modern-indian-sculpture/

Retrieved on 26 February 2023

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Instruction: Read the passage and answer the following questions

1. Sculptors use modelling to make sculptures out of soft materials

like .

a. Clay b. Metal c. Both A and B

2. Sculpture is made by carving, modelling, casting and construction.

a. True b. False c. Can’t say

3. Which of the following statements is true?

a. Sculpture is not a new art in India.

b. The pillars made by the emperor Ashoka were 20 feet (6.1 m) tall.

c. Both A and B

4. If you were a sculptor using casting, which one of the following

materials would you use?

a. Clay b. Metal c. Wood

5. The art of sculpture vanished during the Mughal rule.

a. True b. False c. Can’t say

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ACTIVITY 2 Maths With Miss Mala!

Instruction: Solve the following equations

1) A3 + C1 2) A1 + C3

12 + 30 = 42 + =

3) A2 + D3 4) C4 + D3

+ = + =
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ACTIVITY 3 Mental Gymnastics With Miss Meridiem

1. Instruction: Find the correct top view of the pyramid

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2. Instruction: Complete the image by filling in the missing pieces

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ACTIVITY 4 Sculptures With Officer Michael

Instruction: Imagine that you are a kind and loving

ruler of a small country. Your sculpting team has brought
a few sculptures for you to choose for the royal garden
that you love. Which one of the following would you
choose and why?
(Note: There are no right or wrong answers since art is subjective
in nature.)
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1. Which sculpture did you choose for your royal garden?

2. What is special about the sculpture you chose?

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3. What kind of sculpture would you want for your royal garden if you
could only have one made? What would the sculpture be made of?
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ACTIVITY 5 Fun With Ezra

Instruction: Find and circle six differences

between the two images
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Instruction: Find and circle five differences between the two images
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Instruction: Fill this image with your favourite colours

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BONUS STICKERS

BE E
X I B L
FLE E NEVER
LIK GIVE UP
CLAY

CLAY-TASTIC!
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SOLUTIONS

ACTIVITY 1

1. a. Clay 2. a. True

3. a. Sculpture is not a new art in India.

4. b. Metal 5. b. False

ACTIVITY 2

1) A3 + C1 2) A1 + C3

12 + 30 = 42 2 + 30 = 32

3) A2 + D3 4) C4 + D3

3 + 60 = 63 21 + 60 = 81
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SOLUTIONS

ACTIVITY 3

1. (D)

2.
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SOLUTIONS

ACTIVITY 5

1.

2.