Cave Art

During one week, we created cave art paintings using our fingers. They gave us crumpled paper bags and the paint was made from mud mixed with powder tempura and water. We started out the lesson talking about memories and how they were recorded. Then we discussed how back in cave times that they didn't have cameras and that they drew pictures on the walls to remember moments in time. To create our cave paintings, we used our fingers to get the paint out of cups and applying it to the brown paper. One of the requirements of our work of art was to put some type of leaf or actual texture onto the picture. I used pine needles to make my person stand out more. They had asked us to make a drawing of a memory that we had and we had a notecard to explain what our memory was. Once our painting was finished, we had talked about how we created our paintings.

For an extension activity, the students would learn more about cave paintings and what the images really meant. Where cave people came up with the images they had created. Once we finished learning about the cave paintings and cave people, The students would look up to see what their favorite picture of the cave paintings were and redraw it to the best of their ability.

My favorite memory consisted of going to my cabin with my family and roasting marshmallows and gong swimming in the lake. Here is my depiction of a cave painting.