Prehistoric Art

35,000 – 24,000 BCE

Cave Drawings

Cave Drawing Project List

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•  22 x 30 Paper 
  
•  Brown Paint or Coffee
  
•  Big Flat Brush 
• Crayons 
  
•  Oil Pastels
  
•  Pencil 
  
•  Charcoal 
  
•  Flashlight
  

Two Videos

Prehistoric History and Cave Art

Cave Drawing Instructions

1. Take your 22 X 30 paper and crumple. 
   
2. Flatten the paper back out. 
   
3. Mix brown paint with water to thin it out.  Or make coffee, but wait until it is cool.
   
4. With your big flat brush, paint the thinned out brown paint or cool coffee on your 22 X 30 flattened paper. 
   
5. After the paper is dry, ask your students to crawl underneath their desks with their flash lights.  Before doing this put crayons, oil pastels, pencils, and charcoal underneath the table.
   
6. Ask your students to draw there cave paintings
   

Cave Drawing Examples

Helpful Links

http://www.students.sbc.edu/ogborn03/prehistoricart.htm

http://artlessonsforkids.me/2009/03/15/cave-art-comes-alive/

http://learningparade.typepad.co.uk/learning_parade/2010/04/off-the-wall-cave-painting-.html

http://www.favecrafts.com/Lesson-Plans/Prehistoric-Art#

http://www.deepspacesparkle.com/2011/02/18/pre-historic-fish-art-lesson/

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