Make portable art

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Stone Age to Iron Age Britain Ice Age Art

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Objectives

Art

Improve their mastery of art and design techniques, (in this case with a focus on sculpting in different materials)

History

Construct informed responses that involve thoughtful selection and organisation of relevant historical information.

Lesson Planning

Explore a variety of techniques that can be used for making Ice Age style portable art. Use these techniques to create your own portable art.

Teaching Outcomes:

To make a piece of portable art from bone, soap or clay using wooden or stone tools.
To research how to create a piece of portable Ice Age art.

Children will:

Explain different ways that Ice Age portable art was made.
Create their own piece of Ice Age sculpture using one or more techniques.
Have an opinion about why Ice Age people made sculptures.

Planning

Provided Resources

Making Ice Age sculptures guide

Unit Resources

You Will Need

A number of bars of Pears soap
Air-drying clay or fimo
Sticks and stones
Lamb ribs

Weblinks

Animals around the end of the last Ice Age from twilightbeasts.wordpress.com
Horse engraved on a rib bone from Creswell Crags from teachinghistory100.org
Selection of carved and engraved bones from Britain and Europe from teachinghistory100.org
Jewellery and moulded and carbed portable art from Dolni Vestonice in the Czech Republic from donsmaps.com
Gallery of portable Ice Age art from Europe from bradshawfoundation.com
Warning - some portable art is of nude women – make sure you choose suitable sculptures for your class to look at. Use the portable art resource from session 4 if you wish to avoid this.