Last week in Kindergarten art... we did something WILD! We went on an imagination field trip into the Lascaux caves in Southwestern France where we found cave paintings that are over 17,000 years old! Everywhere we looked we spotted animals like deer, horses, bulls and even birds! We talked about why people that far in the past had to use cave walls to make art on instead of paper. We also talked about where their art materials came from and determined that they had to come from natural things like berries and mud. Next, we pretended that we went into a time machine and went all the way back to over 17,000 years ago. We went into our cave room and began making art exactly how people during that time had to! We used our materials from "nature" (aka a plant in the middle of the cave with chalk pastels all around it) and began drawing on our rough cave walls. We talked about the animals that were painted in Lascaux caves and the fact that the artists painted those animals because they were animals that they interacted with or hunted every day. They were animals in their environment. Students had to think of animals in their own environment to draw on our cave wall. Since we live in the country, we had lots of animals like cows, horses, and deer. But we also had kitty cats, dogs and even some butterflies in there as well! Take a look at our magnificent cave art!
We had SO much fun using our bright imaginations! I get so into stuff like this that sometimes I don't know who is more excited, the students or me!?
I hope you enjoyed seeing our awesome cave kids creating their awesome cave art!!
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