History- African Art

Last week we finished up our unit on Ancient Africa (which ran a little longer than expected). We made an art project called "Painted Hands". We learned that in Ancient Africa many people painted their hands, feet, and other body parts, usually adding geometric designs on special occasions.

 I traced the kids' hands and we cut out colorful shapes to paste on.

Jayden's painted hand

Caitlin's painted hand

We really enjoyed the Anansi story we read the previous week and decided to borrow a couple of books from the library.

 We also decided to create our own Anansi spiders.

Once their paper plates dried, the kids used a mixture of foam geometric shapes, as well as cut outs to create his face.

Then we stapled on some pipe cleaners for legs.

Voila!