Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Ice Age Cave Art

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The kids are studying the Last Ice Age for history and we've done some great art projects for this unit! First we went to a local park and picked up sticks and moss and rocks to make a replica of an hunter-gatherer village. Yesterday we made our version of cave art - similiar to the art they've seen pictures of in books. When I take them to France to stay in Steph's house we definitely plan on making a day trip to Lascaux to see some of the first cave art that we know of!

Here are our tools: watercolor paints in the darling paint holder I found at Carrefour in Paris...used it for the first time!

Kiddos working on their art - no, Will is not sticking the brush up his nose I promise, it's just in the wrong spot at the wrong time.

Noah gets to do all the fun stuff but none of the work! Lucky guy.

The final product!

2 comments:

Mom A said...

What fun! So glad the kids get to learn all this great information in a loving, fun environment.

stephmodo said...

Cute project...love Noah's haircut. There are some other cave paintings closer to the cottage that Rick Steves recommends...we'd like to try those sometime too!