Third Grade Aboriginal Bark Paintings

Students in third grade viewed and discussed Artwork by the Aboriginal people of Australia. We used their work to inspire our bark paintings. To begin with, thanks to Harris Teeter for donating the bags for this project! We used brown grocery bags and tore around the edges to get an organic shape. We then chose an animal to feature in the center of the "bark". Students chose 4 aboriginal symbols to add to their picture, trying to tell a short story with the symbols. We then completed these by adding repeated paths of dots in a variety of colors around the designs. I am truly wowed by how awesome these turned out! Great work third grade!

2nd Grade Aboriginal Hands

Second Grade artists viewed and discussed the work of Aboriginal Artists in Australia. Students cut and glued three hands to black paper and added interesting line designs and Aboriginal symbols to the hands. The second week student began to make repeated paths of paint dots to recreate an aboriginal painting. This was my first time teaching this lesson, it developed over the weeks, but will be much better the next time I teach it! I love the colors of paint on the black paper, but would like to change the way the students design their hands in the future.