Molded Bricks Project
Architects in ancient Mesopotamia (West Asia) didn't have much good stone to carve, but they had plenty of clay on the riverbanks of the Tigris and the Euphrates. So they often built their buildings out of clay bricks.
To decorate these buildings, artists molded the bricks into different shapes, and then when the bricks were put together they made patterns and pictures, as in the bull illustrated here. You can do that too: draw a picture, and then cut the picture into smaller rectangles. Mold the design on one paper rectangle on to a small rectangle of clay, and you'll have one brick. Now repeat that with all the other paper rectangles. When they're dry, fit them together like a puzzle, and you'll have your drawing remade in clay bricks, just like in ancient Mesopotamia.
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This will be cooler if you can glaze and fire the clay, but even if you have to use Fimo or modeling clay it will give you an idea of what the Mesopotamians were doing.
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