Australian Outback: Aboriginal art

Produce a piece of art work in the style of Aboriginal Art to go in an Art Gallery for visitors to the Safari Park.

Teaching Outcomes
To learn about and experiment with the Aboriginals’ use of earth colours and their practice of the use of different size ‘dots’ to represent pictures.
To recognise the history and partnership the Aboriginal people have with their natural environment.

Children will:

• Produce a piece of art work in the style of Aboriginal art.
• Peer assess their classmates’ work.
• Learn about the Aboriginal people in Australia.

This session does not need any provided resources.

• Artefacts and images of Aboriginal art
• Templates of Australian mammals
• Art paper and comment cards
• Cotton buds and paint brushes
• A selection of different sized tools with round ends
• A selection of paint in ‘earth colours’

A traditional Aboriginal tale about how the kangaroo got her pouch from learningtogive.org
Banol, head man of Aboriginal village visits children painting at his village school from bbc.co.uk
Aboriginal art examples from art-educ4kids.weebly.com