Projects: How about some art?

Lacie is enrolled in Kolbe Academy.  Kolbe has detailed syllabi and a rigorous curriculum.  But, I want her to do more projects.  This past week, Lacie did an extensive timeline and a large mapping project of the Roman Empire.  I like to assign projects for the times when the week is disrupted, like it as this week with Halloween and All Saints Day.  We worked on the projects around events.

Two upcoming topics in History are the early Christianity and early Islamic development.  I want to insert some art.  Khan Academy has Early Christian Art and Islamic Art articles.  We’ll use these two articles for some background.  The Art of Mathematics, Islamic Patterns uses simples geometric shapes to create Islamic tiles as an art project.  We’ll start with paper tiles on graph paper and use these images as inspiration.  Several of our neighbors are devote Muslims.  I want to invite the children to make some art.

The Vatican has good information about the catacombs and early Christian art and symbols.  In Ephesus, Turkey, there are well preserved Christian symbols.  We’ll try print making.  I think we can carve images in clay or styrofoam and use acrylic paints to make prints.  

We may need Christian symbols coloring pages and Islamic art tiles to color for the younger children.        Here’s hoping this will be a fun project.  I’ll post pix when the kids do this project.