Cave Art

For this lesson, we created cave art by using crumpled paper bags and mud paint. The mud paint was dirt, tempera, and water mixed together. We started our lesson by discussing how things were recorded in history, and how cave paintings were a way of recording history. To begin our project, we first had to think about what our favorite memory was growing up. Once we had our memory we used the the mud paint to draw our memory on the paper bag. We were encouraged to use different colors of paint. Before we were done with our project we had to use something in order to create texture to our paintings; we placed either pieces of grass clippings, leaves, or sticks to our paintings. Once we were finished with our cave paintings, we got into groups and discussed what each of our favorite memories were.


Here is my cave painting:


My favorite memory growing up was going to Valleyfair with my family.

An extension activity for this project is to discuss the prehistoric times and dinosaurs that used to roam the land. After discussing the different types of dinosaurs students could chose and paint a dinosaur by using the mud paint to give it more of a prehistoric look.