Stone Age boy

Homeschooling with a relaxed, eclectic, secular style and encouraging a interest-led learning with a project-based lifestyle.

As well as looking at art from our modern age, I also try to introduce children to folk art and tribal art from around the world, as well as the imagery created by ancient civilisations and prehist…

Well, the plan was to wait until August to start Story of the World Volume 1, but it just seemed that we couldn’t wait. We’ll probably be finished or closed to finished the first volum…

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Year 3 cave paintings. Tea stained cartridge paper and oil pastel design. Air drying clay necklaces on wire and painted.

Year 3 cave paintings. Tea stained cartridge paper and oil pastel design. Air drying clay necklaces on wire and painted.

Truly a "hands-on" art project, this fun activity gets the entire class collaborating on a group work of art. This art project is the perfect complement to the Cave Art PowerPoint introduction (see my products) . Prehistoric cave art is truly a topic that captures students' imagination and stirs th...

Using butcher paper, ink and charcoal, your child will explore ancient motifs such as buffalo, bison and hunters by creating her very own cave painting.

This art project for kids is great, cave painting was an activity that ancient people realized all over the world. Being able to reproduce what they saw, was a huge step in human history. - Art for kids

Dane made a decision that he wanted to learn more about Art and Art History this year. So this week, we started to learn about cave paintings. We read a couple of books from the library, and we looked at a lot of cave paintings online. One of the books we read a section of is: Cave Paintings to Picasso (The inside scoop on 50 Art Masterpieces) by Henry Sayre We found a large collection of cave paintings while researching the internet here: Wikipedia has a great collection of works of art…

These are samples of 4th grade cave paintings on "rock" (no, it is not traditional clay - read on to find out the crazy material we used). Students did their artwork after learning about the paintings in Lascaux and other caves painted over 15,000 years ago. First, we brainstormed about the possible materials that would have been used, since there was no Wal-Mart 17,000 years ago to buy art supplies! And we discussed possible reasons for prehistoric man to have created these greart works of…

As well as looking at art from our modern age, I also try to introduce children to folk art and tribal art from around the world, as well as the imagery created by ancient civilisations and prehist…

Cave artists at work

Cave Stone Age display

Classroom displays don’t have to be flat! Make those bulletin boards come to life by making them three-dimensional, whenever possible. Use paper, and card to your advantage and create inspiri…

Developing and presenting inspirational collections that reflect the creativity, innovation, history, culture and people of Northern Ireland and beyond.