How Do You Make A Clay Model Brain?
From its squishy texture to its versatility, clay offers the perfect medium for forming a model brain. Great for a home school project or a rainy craft, building a model of the brain can help teach children about all of its different parts and functions. It is easy to differentiate between the parts of the brain by using different colors of clay to form each one. Show your model brain off to your friends and classmates and they just may want to make one too. Lay out wax paper over your work area for easy clean up. Create the two biggest parts of the brain, the left and right hemispheres. Form two, large half-circles (in Greek hemi means “half” and sphere means “circle”). Put a small piece of clay of a different color between the two hemispheres to represent the corpus callosum which serves as the connecting bridge. Mold the two hemispheres together. Create the sulci (singular is sulcus, meaning “furrow” in Latin) and gyri (singular is gyrus, meaning “fold” in Latin) that cover the outs
