Second Grade Havdalah Spiceboxes

Second graders created beautiful spiceboxes with Sculpey, a polymer clay. The spicebox is used on Havdalah, a ceremony bidding goodbye to the Sabbath. We smell the sweet spices like cloves to remind us to have a "sweet" week.

As an introduction to the project, we looked at spiceboxes made of metal, ceramic, and wood.

For the base, they created a simple pinch pot. For the decoration, they chose colors with contrast and they flattened and rolled the colors together to create a spiral. Then, they rolled clay thin to create an outside layer. I sliced up the clay and they adorned their pinch pots. Here are some of the beautiful results!