4th grade petroglyphs and pictographs

The 4th grade is finishing up a project about Native American Rock Art. The Native Americans created petroglyphs (rock carvings) and pictographs (painted or drawn images) which tell stories with pictures and symbols. 

The students drew an animal on tag board, cut it out and taped it to brown paper. Using a beater, they rolled ink over the animal. When the animal was pulled off an outline remained. We used oil pastels to draw Native American symbols for our pictographs.  

The kids enjoyed this and the projects turned out great! Many are already on display in the 4th grade hall way!