Easy Peasy Year 1 Ancient Art

Weeks

• 1 Take this tour through a cave in France
• 2 Make a “cave painting” on your rock. Use only the natural supplies you found this week
• 3  Trace your hand and make the hand picture.  Draw an ox.  Draw a horse and man for hunt scene
• 4 1. Read about and look at Egyptian paintings and carvings. 2. Draw an Egyptian like in this painting.
• 5 1. Read about Egyptian sculptures. 2. Sculpt.
• 6 Make paper
• 7 Try to draw a Mayan flower design.
• 8 Make a clay pot like the Mayans.
• 9 Learn about line
• 10 Make a seal like those in the Indus Valley.
• 11 Try this challenge. You will see different pieces of Greek art and learn what part they played in the home.
• 12 1. Choose a craft. Medusa (toilet paper roll) Pottery (paper plate, paint, pipe cleaners) Trojan Horse (paper, card board — like cereal box) Scratch Vase scratch off the black crayon… 2. Here’s the story of Medusa if you are choosing her for your craft you should know her myth (tall tale) about her.
• 13 1. Draw, paint or sculpt the three types of Greek columns. 2. You should have read about these in your history lesson today.
• 14 Learn about primary and secondary colors
• 15 Look at Roman mosaics. Click on the arrow to look through all of them. 2. Experiment with making a Roman mosaic online. (Next week we’ll do it with paper. Use the online one to try out your ideas.) 3. Follow the directions to copy the letter code in the box at the bottom. Paste it into a document and save it as mosaic in the folder with your name on it.
• 16 1. Make a paper mosaic. 2. Cut out little paper squares. Arrange them on paper in a shape or pattern and glue them down.
• 17 Look at and read about Roman art.
• 18 Look at these Roman theater masks. Click on older to see more. You can make yours out of paper plates.
• 19 Look at some early Christian artwork.
• 20 Look at these examples of Viking art.
• 21 Play with these two art in motion simulators.
• 22 Look at these heraldic lions, or put together these heraldic lion fact cards.
• 23 Look at these stone carvings
• 24 Writings from the middle ages: Take a look at some and then write the first letter of your name in this style
• 25 Here is a lesson in movement in art. Make sure you watch, find and create.
• 26 Make a Japanese fan.
• 27 1) Draw your hand in 3D. 2) Learn to draw 3D shapes
• 28 1. Read about Botticelli and look carefully at his artwork. 2. Pick two pictures and make as many observations as you can about it.
• 29 Read about Raphael. 2. Examine the first painting carefully. Make as many observations as you can
• 30 Do this lesson on perspective.
• 31 Do this optical illusion with perspective.
• 32 Choose something to draw
• 33 Choose something to draw
• 34 Choose something to draw
• 35 Choose something to draw
• 36 Choose something to draw