First Grade: Cave Paintings!

Our first graders just finished their first project about some of the earliest found forms of art: cave paintings! They learned how cave painters were restricted to using the materials around them, like mineral and rock dust, for color, and how they mainly painted what was important to them, like animals, tools, and man. We also talked about the caves at Lascaux in France, and how they hold some of the oldest paintings found, though there are even older ones in other parts of the world. Here are a few images we looked at as a class:

And here are some of the student's works themselves!