4th grade just completed a project based on petroglyphs and pictographs. We talked about how the first form of "art" was found on the walls of caves millions of years ago. Petroglyphs were carved into rock where as the pictographs were drawn or painted on to rock.
We drew an animal, cut it out and then taped it on brown paper (to look like a cave wall.) We then used black ink and a brayer to roll the ink over the animal like a stencil. When we peeled the animal off we were left with an outline of our animal...this was our petroglyph. Our pictographs were symbols used by Native Americans on the walls of caves. These were done in oil pastels.
The results were fabulous! Students took a quiz over their knowledge of Rock Art!
