Kindergarten artists learned about cave art, how cavemen lived, symbols that were used, and looked at a famous cave, Lascaux, in France.
When children arrived to art, Miss Zimmerman (my student teacher) told the children the art room had transformed into a cave and to get to the learning carpet, they had to crawl through a cave. We kept the lights off during art with only a couple of lamps on to give the feel of a real cave being dark. On the learning carpet, the children watched a virtual tour of Lascaux cave and we discussed the paintings and colors noticed on the cave walls. We continued to discuss how cavemen lived and some of the things used to make the paintings.
Kindergartners received a brown piece of construction paper. They used brown and black oil pastels to draw an animal (cow, rhino or horse with provided steps) and nature symbol (water, sun, rain, moon). After drawing, kindergartners used yellow and white chalk to color around their drawings since those were the colors they noticed in the virtual tour of Lascaux. They finished their cave art by making a handprint as their signature.
Kindergarten cave the children crawled through to get to the learning carpet
paintings inside the cave
kindergarten artist crawling through the cave
Kindergarten cave painting
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