Peer Teaching #1 (Navajo Cactus Drawing)

In this lesson we learned about the Navajo people and their culture. We then created a piece of art that was inspired by their artwork. We used crayons, colored pencils, and water color paint. We created a painting of cacti that look like that of the Navajo paintings. The vases of the cacti had to have patterns in which were also inspired by the Navajo people and their culture.

An extension activity of this could be having the students do this with other cultures of the world. An example of this is creating a painting that is similar to the paintings in Russia, or creating a painting of Russian Nesting Dolls.

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