Objective: Learn about the cave painters of Lascaux and Altamira. Learn about how ancient cave people created art, what tools they used and how they made paint. Students will draw animals on the "Cave wall" in the style of the ancient cave painters using pieces of flagstone.
CORE KNOWLEDGE GRADE 1: COLOR, LINE, ART FROM LONG AGO
Week 1
Tell the stories of children discovering Altamira cave in Spain and Lascaux cave in France. Watch the video of Lascaux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29S8nbHHnuo
Discuss WHY, by WHOM and HOW the caves were painted.
Part 2
Practice drawing animals in the style of the cave artists on paper (possibly on walls?)
Final project: draw an animal on a piece of flagstone with dried out sharpies (to be recycled) and then fill in the animal shapes with chalk.
These were so fun to do with the first graders. They loved the process of drawing animals on rocks.
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