Hand Movements to Recall Art Vocabulary

Third grade students were working on their clay unit and had a hard time learning and recalling the correct vocabulary words used during the actual working process. Students came up with different hand movements for each word and were able to remember the words and their meaning more easily once a movement was related to it.  The movements we came up with are very much associated with the actual act of doing what the word means.

These videos show how even after the unit is over and we are no longer working with clay, students are able to remember the words and the movement associated with it.