Cave Art!

Check out this easy 1-class project that you can even do at home parents!

Kindergarten students have been learning about the ice age and pre-historic times.... and usually I try to relate my art lessons to their curriculum themes... I'd never done this cave art project before with Kindergarten because I honestly was dreading it would turn into a mess of paint but WOW did these kindergarteners surprise me!

 All you need for this project is brown, black, and white paint, a paper plate, paper towels, q-tips, and a piece of paper(it doesn't have to be brown).  Check out the set up for this project to the right....




Usually, I show images of the pre-historic cave art from the caves at Lascaux, and we talk about what these artists put into their images (animals, people, nature).  We then talk about how everything is painted out of lines and shapes.  You will probably get asked a question like "why don't we have other colored paint?" and "why  don't we have paintbrushes?" At this point we usually talk about how there weren't big machines used to make paints and supplies and so the cave people had to use what they could find from nature!



Check out the awesome results of what happens when students return to their seats and begin working on their own cave art!!