Prehistoric Cave Art

 

I am the art teacher for our Creation to the Greeks Co-op, and the plan this year is to start at the beginning with art as well. 

I am pulling ideas off the internet and Harmony Fine Arts Ancient Art plans.

We started with a prehistoric cave art project. 

     

Items needed

1. Books on cave paintings

2. Brown grocery sack

3. Charcoal pencil

4. Chalk pastels

 

 

We reviewed the cave are books and learned a lot.

• What does prehistoric mean?
• What the art symbolized and the beliefs behind it
• What was drawn and where it was drawn 
• How the colors were made and tools used to paint

 

I made up some notebooking pages for them complete as they went through the study.

 

 

 

Then they got to work creating their own cave art on the brown grocery sack using a charcoal pencil.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The drawings were then wadded up into balls to add the look of a cave wall. 

 

Once they unraveled them, they colored them with pastel chalks.

 

 

 

 

They all seemed to enjoy this project too :0)

 

 

 

 

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