We’re currently working on our North America unit. To understand a little bit of American history, we made this “cheerios” painting. This idea came from this book:
It contains lots of comprehensive introduction to American history, a peek at what the people eat and drinks, how they are dressed, their beliefs and how society was organized. Among the projects in the this book, my son picked the designing of a Navajo.
It is said that healers from the Navajo tribe create paintings using colored sand. And it is believed that these creations had the power to cure illness. 
Because we don’t have colored sand, we pulverized cheerios.
Now I made a design in an art paper. I placed the cheerios in a muffin paper. As a guide, I place number on the shapes that are going to have the same color. Then spread glue into the shapes of color number 1.
I made my son cover the glue using the desired powderized cheerios. We did this with the rest of the shapes/colors. He loves filling the glue with cheerios, he was very particular with the colors mixing. I was telling him it’s okay because it’s unavoidable.
I just love seeing little hands in action!
His favorite part, lifting the paper and shaking off the excess powders.
We let it dry for a few hours and here’s what we ended up with. A Navajo tribe healing painting :)
Happy crafting!
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This is wonderful ... what a great idea for Navajo painting! Thanks so much for linking up with Montessori Monday. I pinned your post to my new Native American Unit Study board at http://pinterest.com/debchitwood/native-american-unit-study/
ReplyDeleteLOVE this! What a great way to make learning come alive! It turned out great. Thanks for linking up to TGIF! Looking forward to seeing you linked up again tomorrow =-)
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