Aboriginal Bark Paintings
This is a lesson/activity based on the one in the book, Art from Different Cultures. And Year 3 have made it our own every year.
So crumpled up rough beige sugar paper became the bark. They sketched their chosen animal one and added some colour with some chalks. This made a nice contrast to the bright earthy paints they'd use next.
Then the aboriginal dot style began! It was all too easy for them to hap-hazardly dab the cotton buds randomly so I had to guide them back to the original Aborigine paintings and get them to think why they're different; what technique is different? How?
Of course my little 7-8 year olds won't be the aboriginal artists with 30 years plus of practice but we all know and remind ourselves, even me, that we can start practicing at any time!
Some children wanted to use the aboriginal dreamtime story symbols to tell a picture story around and about their animal.
Fingertips! The best!
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