Kindergarten artists learned about how the Egyptians liked cats! They even would put jewelry on them and mummify them. They created their own cats with pyramids in the background!
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There are two featured India themed crafts for kids in this post: A Tiger Print Manicure and Tiger Handprints plus learn 10 tiger facts.
The mischievous and wise Anansi First graders have begun their unit on African art Royal kente, pic from Smithsonian with an African folklore tale of Anansi the Spider, a spider who seems to know everything and loves to play the trickster. The book in the picture has great illustrations, but it does not tell the kente story - that is a different Anansi book that I don't own... yet! The story can be found online here. An old Ashanti story tells the origins of weaving - two brothers set out on a hunting trip and are amazed at a beautiful spider web in the wilderness, of course woven by Anansi, who teaches the brothers how to weave and they in turn teach their community. Kente cloths were first woven only for royalty, but are now available for everyone to wear. They are often woven with the colors of their flag. When beginning this unit, I asked students what they already knew about Africa, and most shared answers about the beautiful wild animals who live there. To celebrate this, we included some animal print paper strips - thanks to Artolazzi for the idea, it really added a nice layer of interest and texture. After weaving, we illustrated our paper kente with an illustration of Anansi, happily dangling from our woven cloths.
AB, AAB, ABC, ABB … if you’ve ever worked with a child on patterns you, no doubt, recognize these. Frankly, I think some of the traditional pattern-practice activities are a bore [yawn]. I wanted a fun way to keep my son engaged as we worked on creating and recognizing patterns. When I stumbled across a picture of Kente cloth (fabric woven by the peoples of Ghana, Africa), a light bulb went off. To start our activity, I Googled Kente cloth and clicked on “images.” I showed my son all of the different pictures and told him we were going to replicate the look of Kente cloth with an art project. He was game. Earlier in the week, I had my husband cut two rectangular blocks of wood the same size from a 2x4. (If you replicate this activity, don’t feel like you need to use wood. Anything that is hard, shaped like a rectangle, and could get paint on it would work.) I cut lots of cardstock rectangles from five colors of cardstock in the same shape as our blocks of wood. Then, I had my son wrap the two blocks of wood in yarn. I tied the two ends together on the back of the blocks, he applied acrylic paint with a sponge brush, and stamped the yarn prints on two different colors of cardstock. My son was blown away at how cool these homemade stamps were. (Okay, who am I kidding? I was too!) I got the idea here. When he had stamped eight blocks of each, we moved on and began making our patterned blocks in the following configurations: AB AAB ABC ABB Each strip of our Kente cloth would have blocks with one of these patterns. I cut the cardstock rectangles into horizontal or vertical strips and my son glued them on. When he’d created two or three blocks with the pattern we were making, we glued our blocks onto a big piece of paper in an AB pattern, alternating with the stamped blocks. This took a long time and a lot of thinking. My son, who isn’t normally the patient type, stuck with it until all four strips were done and glued onto our plain paper. He was captivated by how the patterns all came together! When it was done, I had him explain the meaning, symbolism, or significance of his Kente cloth design by completing a custom-made handwriting sheet I created. I had to smile at his explanation: the cloth he made commemorates losing his second tooth! Download a PDF of this handwriting paper here.
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These Melanie Mikecz Collaged Zebras will leave you inspired! Check out what we made this week in our children's art studio in Charlotte, NC!
Rug hooking is an amazing art form. View my Gallery to see examples of my work. Enjoy, Cindi Gay. Make your own today!
"Kids can make these suncatchers to capture the amazing and vibrant beauty of an African sunset. There are three animals to choose from so kids could make one or all of them to decorate their windows. This craft upcycles clear plastic food lids so it is also inexpensive to make. It is not limited to rectangular lids. Any clear lid can be used. A template with all three animals is provided and the size should be printed out to fit the size of the lid being used."
Can you tell I like mixed media? We all have our fav's we gravitate towards, and mixed media is defintely one of mine. It doesn't always seem to be a favorite for people who "judge" art contests, but as art teachers, we are constantly trying to balance what we believe is important for the kids to do, and what others might be pleased with. More about that later. I found this zebra look on this website http://krokotak.com/2010/08/aplikatsii-ot-kragtcheta/ Materials: Blue paper cut to about 12X15 Vanilla paper :) White paper Black markers Batting B&W yarn Old straw broom pieces. Pom poms Googly eyes (optional) Tacky glue 1. Have students tear a piece of manila paper and glue on, torn side up. 2. Trace a rectangle on white paper about 4" X 5" 3. Provide strips of white paper for students to make legs,neck and head. 4. Draw stripes on body, legs, neck and head. Show images of actual zebras so they can see how the stripes are curved and vary in width. Encourage to draw them this way, otherwise you will get straight up and down stripes. 5. Assemble and glue down the parts. 6. Tear pieces of batting for clouds, if desired. Add a pom pom for nose, draw eye or use googly eye, add b&w yard for mane and head. Glue on pieces of broom for grass.
I thought, since we have so many readers from around the globe, to write a post on a typical day in a South African preschooler's life. It might be interesting to see how we differ
This week my daughter brought snacks to preschool. We made elephant bread because they were learning about the letter E. I was looking online for a snack that started with the letter E and came across this idea for elephant bread. I followed the original tutorial to make the cute snack. The only difference is ... Read more
Peacocks! I love how these turned out! This time of year the writing just reinforces our state DIBELS assessment we are doing this week, p...
I teach a class for our homeschool co-op. This past week in my class (which is a Pre-K, K, 1st grade class) we were learning about animals and habitats in Asia. I like to have
We’ve been enjoying our March poem and updating our calendar with the lion or lamb to match the weather–and the weather has given us plenty of opportunities to choose both! Last week w…
What bin do these items go into? This recycling sorting game is a fun way to introduce kids to the basics of re-purposing waste!
Giraffe Silhouettes in the African Savanna 2nd Grade First, the students drew a giraffe and painted it black. Next, they used watercolors to create a beautiful sunset. Then the giraffe was glued to the sunset and details such as grass and a tree were added with a black marker.
Practice number bonds with your kindergarten and first grade students with this fun rainbow craft and activity by matching the correct addition statements.
Misspelling of "woolly" has since been corrected – phew!
