Medicine Wheel

Native American inspired project of telling a visual story in a new way.

Project Steps:

Choose your animal "totem" (animals native to north america only)
Write an brief auto-biography (a paragraph for each of the 4 "ages" in the medicine wheel) to be translated into visual symbols or a pictograph boarder.
Use the template to draw your border outline on your brown paper bag after you've prepared it. Divide the border in half for your story border and design border.
Divide the medicine wheel into 4 sections with a cool divider design (has to be an object, like branches for example) dividing the circle into 4 spaces.
Depict your personal story using your totem animal in each of the 4 sections. This will be 4 different images of your animal totem in the 4 "ages". These drawings need to look as realistic as possible.
Create an outside border design to enhance your medicine wheel.
Color the Medicine Wheel with colored pencils. If you color thickly, it will look like you painted it.

Do your planning on the Work page:

Translate your story into Native American visual symbols or a pictogram:

Prepare drawings of your animal totem