African Cloth Painting-- 3rd Grade

The Intermediates (grade 3) are studying Africa in their Social Studies class.  We learned about the African Korhogo Clothes.  See this link for more details.

This project focused on how symbols are used in African art.  The students designed their own painted Korhogo cloth on muslin.  They decorated the border with symbols and drew their main figure with Sharpie.  Then, they added paint with watercolor.

African Adinkra Stamps

The 5th/6th grade class has been carving stamps from soft cut blocks.  They used acrylic paints to print their stamps on muslin cloth!  The students read about the African Adinkra symbol stamps and created their own symbol.

Painted Korhogo Cloths-- 3rd Grade

This project focused on how symbols and designs are used in African art.  The students designed their own painted Korhogo cloth.  They decorated the border with symbols and drew their main figure with Sharpie.  Then, they added paint with watercolors.  


1.  Introduce African Korhogo cloths.
2.  Sketch ideas.
3.  Draw your design on a square of muslin withe pencil.  Use a ruler to draw a border.
4.  Outline with Sharpie marker.
5.  Paint with watercolors.

 

Clay African Masks-- 3rd grade

 

For this project, we drew African masks and then constructed them from slabs of clay.  These were painted with acrylic paints and then sprayed with varnish.