Native American Arts and Crafts activities for children
The Native American way of life is exciting for kids to learn about; it seems so exotic as it is so different to our British way of life.
Children love learning about Native Americans’ folklore; their love of animals, music, dances and style of dress.
Arts and Crafts
activities
can be integrated into school lessons about Native Americans to make the learning experience even more fun.
While we live in houses made from bricks, glass and concrete, Native Americans often lived in ‘tipis’ made from wooden frames and buffalo hide.
Native American Colour in Tipi Kits
– made from strong card rather than buffalo hide! – are great fun for kids to make while learning about Tipis. Plains Indians favoured this type of house as they could be put up or dismantled in under an hour; perfect for tribes who moved around to follow the movements of the buffalo herds.
Did your children know that many tipis were 12 feet tall (twice as tall as a large grown-up) – tall enough to allow headroom for the horses that travelled with some tribes!
As buffalos and horses were such a big part of Native American life; perhaps kids could draw pictures of these glorious animals on their tipis with fibre pens!
Depictions of animals were also used to adorn the totem poles that Native Americans used to make. Few Native American totem poles survive today as they were made from cedar; a type of wood which tends to decay.
However, you can still make arts and crafts totem poles; an activity which children will love to do.
Native American Foam Totem Pole Kits
contain a foam pole and pre-cut foam decorations of animals like eagles and owls.
Native Americans loved to hold ceremonies around the totem poles; occasions when dancing was popular. Once the totem poles have been built you could have a class Sun dance; can the kids’ moves affect the weather outside the classroom window?
Native Americans loved music as much as dancing – the sound of tribal drums gave pow wow gatherings the ‘wow’ factor.
Native American Hand Drum Kits
contain ready-made white card drum, coloured straw, ribbon and feathers. The drums can be decorated with Native American symbols such as roaring grizzly bears and swooping bald eagles.
If you do decide to hold a classroom pow-wow then kids will have to make sure they are dressed appropriately.
Native American Headdress Kits
can really help children to look the part. Once the headbands are personalised with colourful feathers and plastic beads they are splendid to wear!
Native American Wooden Necklace Kits
can complete the look – these too are simple to make and irresistible to wear!
Children will want to take some of their arts and crafts handiwork home as a reminder of a happy day of creativity.
Native American Scratch Art Magnets
are great souvenirs of a successful Native American art project.
Scratch the specially-coated surface of the magnets to make silhouettes of howling wolves, running buffalos and mysterious totems appear in Technicolor glory!
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