African Elephant Chalk Drawing
This week we are exploring the animals of Africa as requested by my youngest. We are reading and viewing a couple of animals a day to learn more about the animals and their behaviours and the geography of Africa.
Today the boys began their day setting up some new and old race tracks and did some video recordings of a car being chased by a boulder. They worked together for a few hours, getting new angles filmed and action scenes were reconstructed as ideas were thought of!
This was an activity with no end! They are still at it 3 hours later!
After reading about Lions and Cheetahs today. We viewed some pictures of Ndebele house paintings. The people of southern Africa are famous for colorful, geometric designs painted on their houses. Traditionally they used homemade fingerpaints to decorate and believed this type of painting created a connection between the past, present and future.
Using card stock , permanent markers and pastels, the boys each designed their own painted houses! The book Amazing African projects seen here is a great resource!
Their houses and the track are both awesome! Three hours of playing together just can’t be beaten!
I know! I’m most thrilled they played together for so long, and back at again this morning!