Prehistoric Lascaux Cave drawings/paintings! Check out the cave paintbrushes! |
3rd graders watched video clips of a tour of the cave and we talked about how these cave people made their paint and to think about how they would make their paintbrushes. Then each table ('cavepeople tribe') were given a cave wall (a giant piece of brown craft paper roll) that they would wrinkle up to give it cave wall texture. Then looking at some close up photos, students recreated the drawings on their own wall with pastels of the same colors of the original drawings from Lascaux.
Inside Lascaux Cave |
cave painting/drawing of a wild horse |
Aa photo of inside looking at the wall and ceiling of Lascaux. Bulls, deer, elk, and wild horses line the walls and ceiling |
ancient handprint in Lasacaux cave |
Then as a finishing touch we made cave man paintbrushes! We used the brushes to make our 'signature' or handprint to show who made this art. They didn't have a written language back then, so leaving a handprint was a sign of who was there and who could have made the art! Here's how we made the brushes. Students found a stick and then had to pick one of 3 styles to make:
-grass bristle
-fake fur bristle
-feather bristle
All paintbrushes were made with the help of 'cave man tape' aka masking tape (more fun this way:) ) and some 'cave man string' wrapped around the base. The fake fur we prended was wooly mammoth or deer/elk hide that our tribe had hunted.
a student using their cave paintbrush to make their hand print 'signature' |
Students could either trace around their hand with chalk and blend, trace around their hand with a paintbrush, or paint directly on their palm and stamp to make the handprint.
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