3rd Grade- Aboriginal Art!

I chose to do a project on aboriginal art with the students as a way to practice pattern. We began the lesson by looking at images of aboriginal art and discussing the use of patterns and dots. Then I had the students think of an animal that best represented their personalities. They drew the animal with black and white colored pencils and filled it in with patterns.

The next day, students used q-tips and paint to add patterns of dots around their animals just like the Aborigines did! They turned out great!