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Sixth graders have finished their cave walls! Last year I didn't get to do a cave art project with the students because they breezed through the unit in social studies and started right in on the Ancient Egyptians. This year, I made sure I started this early, so as we have finished this up in art class, the students are just starting cave art in social studies...perfect timing! Tomorrow is parent-teacher conference night so we managed to get this done just in time. Unfortunately, I couldn't get the paper into those nice display strips I bought last year through the Parent's Association, but they were still useful to tape up the cave walls on. (The crinkled paper just wouldn't slide in the strips!) This project took us a total of about 2 1/2 class periods to complete. On the first day, which was essentially the half day, I showed my power point about prehistoric art and we did the virtual tour of Lascaux Cave on the smartboard. On the second day, we unrolled and took a huge sheet of brown butcher paper outside on the sidewalk. I had the students all line up on both sides and in pairs. Then then slowly crinkled and unfolded the paper to give it physical texture. Next, we took natural colored chalk that I have and rubbed it all over the wrinkled paper. Using paper towels, we wiped it to blend all the colors together. One class did a better job blending the colors than the other, but then the other class did a better job (in my opinion) of filling their cave wall with large cave paintings! On the third day, we took about 15 minutes to talk about and mix our egg yolk tempera. I gave each table four cups. One had pigment in it, two were empty, and one had the egg yolk. I sent one person to the sinks to fill one empty cup and get a paint brush for mixing. In the other empty cup, I asked them to fill it about 2/3 full with the powdered pigment I gave their table. Then, they had to slowly add water to create a paste, about the consistency of tooth paste. Lastly, I had them add the paste mixture to the egg yolk, mix and shake. I added these signs on the wall across from the cave walls... My first year of teaching, I actually set up a real "cave" for the cave art we did. That year, I had the students rip the edges and then crinkle Manila tag board. We painted them with tempera and then quickly rinsed the tempera off the paper before it dried. This created a similar effect to the chalk. That year, we didn't make our own paint. Then, I also had the students use chalk and paint on rocks to create a painting on an actual rock. I set up my easy-up tent in the media center (I only put it up about half way) at our school and then attached blankets all the way around. I pinned up all of the cave art inside on the blankets, laid the rocks down at the bottom along the edge of the blankets, and then set a lantern on the outside so people could crawl in like a real cave to view the artwork. It was a huge success, but A LOT of work! I set it up the next year for our art show as well (if you check out the 2012 Art Show page, you can see two pictures that sort of show the cave. One shows a "cave man" inside the cave (it's a dark photo) and the other shows our other "cave man" standing outside of it!)

I have been fascinated by the caves at Lascaux, France, since I learned about them in one of my very first college art history classes. I wanted to see if my sons would find them equally fascinating. They did. Before we made our own "cave paintings," we read a great book that familiarized my sons with the discovery of the caves. The story is so appealing to kids because it was, in fact, some young boys that stumbled on these historic caves and discovered their paintings and engravings, which were made by some of the earliest humans. Art has a long rich history. Cave paintings show us its very origin. Our Artist Recreation Of course, we don't have a cave wall to use as our medium, so I grabbed a roll of brown packaging paper (like what you'd wrap a package in to mail) that was collecting dust in our basement. I cut a large piece. I crinkled it to give it more of a stone effect and swiped on a few areas of brown and white acrylic paint in an attempt to replicate the look of cave walls. Then my sons used taupe, brown, black, and white oil pastels and some stencils I'd made. To make your own stencils, print my free template onto office paper, overlay sheets of transparency paper (think thick clear report covers), and using an exacto craft knife, carefully cut away the animals shapes. The boys were able to position the stencils anywhere they chose and even flip them to make the mirror image for variety. Holding the stencil steady (and tightly), they ran the oil pastel along the inner edge of the stencil to make an outline of a bull, deer and her fawn, bird, and human hunter (complete with bow and arrow). This required patience and determination for our 5-year-old, but since the real paintings didn't have crisp lines, even his wavering hand seemed to add to the authenticity. When we were done, he told me all about what our "cave painting" was illustrating! More Books In the evening, the boys read two other great books to extend the learning even further. My husband read The First Drawing to our 5-year-old. It is a wildly imaginative tale of a child who invented art by drawing in caves. It starts "Imagine ... you were born before the invention of drawing, more than thirty thousand years ago." This makes the cave painters very relatable to kids! My 9-year-old read Discovery in the Cave on his own. While the reading level was much lower than he's used to, he was fascinated by the small maps that detailed all of the different areas in the caves of Lascaux. It contained enough unique information from the book we read before our art activity to keep him interested.

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