Aim: To make a tower-form spice container.
Materials: Mini cereal boxes, raisin boxes, or other small cardboard boxes; markers, construction paper, glue, tape, scissors and clovesProcedure:
1. Have students view and discuss Zelig Segal’s spice container, as well as the 16th-century spice container below. Discuss with students:
- How are these two objects similar? How are they different?
- What do you notice about the design of the traditional spice container?
- It was common in earlier centuries to create spice containers in the shape of towers and buildings.
2. Distribute supplies and have students create tower-form spice containers. They can base their constructions on their school or home, a famous skyscraper, or any another building.
3. Remind students that their spice containers should be functional. There needs to be a place to put the spices, a way to open and close the spice compartment, and a way to smell the spices when they are inside.
4. Give a few cloves to each student so they can try out their spice containers.
Zelig Segal (Israeli, b. 1933)
- Silver: cast and pierced
- 3 3/4 x 2 1/2 x 3 3/4 in. (9.5 x 6.4 x 9.5 cm)
- The Jewish Museum, New York
- Purchase: Sanford C. Bernstein Foundation Fund, 1995-72
Not on view Ceremonial Art
Spice Container
Spice Container
- Silver: traced, pierced, cast, and parcel-gilt
- 9 5/16 x 2 5/16 x 2 7/8 in. (23.7 x 5.9 x 7.3 cm)
- The Jewish Museum, New York
- Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, JM 23-52
Spice Container
Spice Container
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