Picture This – Art Exploration for Kids: “Dragons and Dreams – The Amazing Art of Ancient China”

Picture This – Art Exploration for Kids: “Dragons and Dreams – The Amazing Art of Ancient China”

Kindergarten through 5^th grade.

“Help us celebrate the Year of the … as we hear tales from ancient China and then make our own Chinese Paper Scroll Calligraphy Painting.”

· Read this year’s sign from Animals in the Stars: Chinese Astrology for Children (J133.5 CRA), The Animals of the Chinese Zodiac (J133.5 WHI) (alternates: Cat and Rat (J133.5 YOU) and/or The Paper Dragon (Davol))

· Show Reading Rainbow video/DVD Liang and the Magic Paintbrush (or read book by Demi)

· Photocopy signs from Chinese Calligraphy (745.619551 QU) pp. 6, 56, 71,114-120

· Make paper scroll paintings (Supplies: paper, brushes, black paint—kids got excited about calligraphy – ended up painting characters rather than figurative painting, so we didn’t use colored paint.)
 
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Another possible book: Brush of the Gods by Lenore Look.