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Day 4's craft is all about cave drawings! Hundreds of years ago people didn’t communicate like we do today. Hundreds of years ago people didn’t post on Facebook or tweet out a message or post a picture on Instagram. If you can imagine there was no such thing as cell phones! EEEKKK!! People communicated by painting images on a rock face. These pictures or images are called “pictographs.” They didn’t have paint that you could squirt out of a bottle. They were generally made from pulverized minerals and so red, white and black were the most common colors found. Sometimes you might hear them called pictograms but they are usually called pictographs.
Day 4's craft is all about cave drawings! Hundreds of years ago people didn’t communicate like we do today. Hundreds of years ago people didn’t post on Facebook or tweet out a message or post a picture on Instagram. If you can imagine there was no such thing as cell phones! EEEKKK!! People communicated by painting images on a rock face. These pictures or images are called “pictographs.” They didn’t have paint that you could squirt out of a bottle. They were generally made from pulverized minerals and so red, white and black were the most common colors found. Sometimes you might hear them called pictograms but they are usually called pictographs.
The earliest pictographs that have been discovered date back to 9000 BC which means 9,000 years before Christ was born! That is a looooong time ago! The symbols that scientists have discovered on these rocks and inside caves helped shape our current language and how we use signs and symbols today. Even the Roman Alphabet was based on early pictographs that were discovered. Even the letter “A” represented the head of an ox, and if you turn the letter upside down, it represented a bovine, or bison, head with horns.
The earliest pictographs that have been discovered date back to 9000 BC which means 9,000 years before Christ was born! That is a looooong time ago! The symbols that scientists have discovered on these rocks and inside caves helped shape our current language and how we use signs and symbols today. Even the Roman Alphabet was based on early pictographs that were discovered. Even the letter “A” represented the head of an ox, and if you turn the letter upside down, it represented a bovine, or bison, head with horns.
Today you are going to be creating your own pictograph! Tape a large sheet of paper underneath a table. Yep, UNDERNEATH your table to represent your cave! Using the sheet below, have fun drawing cave pictographs using crayons, markers, or whatever you have. Then, when you are done, you can even take the paper off underneath the table, crinkle it up, and it will look like you drew on a cave wall! Hang it up somewhere in your house!
Today you are going to be creating your own pictograph! Tape a large sheet of paper underneath a table. Yep, UNDERNEATH your table to represent your cave! Using the sheet below, have fun drawing cave pictographs using crayons, markers, or whatever you have. Then, when you are done, you can even take the paper off underneath the table, crinkle it up, and it will look like you drew on a cave wall! Hang it up somewhere in your house!
Another craft option for today: Make your own cave crystals! (See the video link below.)
Another craft option for today: Make your own cave crystals! (See the video link below.)
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