Indigenous Animal Crafts & Writing Activities | Native American Art Projects
❤️Looking for a creative and culturally appropriate way to celebrate Native American Heritage or Indigenous Peoples' Day in your classroom?
❤️Your students will love learning about the meanings of animals and creatures in Native American cultures, while making beautiful Pacific Northwest-inspired crafts and writing projects!
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✏️Use the teaching materials to educate your students about traditional Pacific Northwest art, various creatures, and their meanings in Indigenous cultures.
✏️Students can choose from 27 creatures and the traits they represent. Works great as a social-emotional learning (SEL) activity!
✏️Crafts are differentiated! There are several ways make them including, coloring, drawing, painting, or decorating (cut and paste).
✏️Students can also choose from a variety of writing prompts, and writing project options (dotted vs. single lines etc.)
✏️Use these projects to meaningfully decorate your bulletin board, classroom, or hallway, while displaying your students' creativity!
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⭐️Great for centers (literacy, writing, art, social studies), whole group lessons, independent work, partner work, indoor recess, sub tub, intervention programs, and more!
⭐️This resource is low prep and will save you time! Simply print and go!
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✅ Includes: (122 pages)
Teaching Materials: (5 pages)
☑ Cultural information guide (2 pages)
☑ Creature Meanings guide (3 pages)
Craft Projects: (92 pages)
☑ Craft directions (3 pages)
☑ Craft pieces (8 pages)
☑ Craft examples (27 pages)
☑ Craft body templates (27 pages)
☑ Craft body art pieces (27 pages)
Writing Projects: (25 pages)
☑ Informative writing - brainstorming sheet (1 page)
☑ Creature name tracing - dotted lines (6 pages)
☑ Creature name or trait - blank dotted lines (2 pages)
☑ Creature name or trait - blank solid lines (2 pages)
☑ "I chose the _______" - blank dotted lines (3 pages)
☑ "I chose the _______ because" - blank solid lines (3 pages)
☑ "My Animal Symbol" - dotted lines & solid lines (2 pages)
☑ "All About Animal Symbols" - dotted lines & solid lines (2 pages)
☑ "Animals in Native American Cultures" - dotted lines & solid lines (2 pages)
☑ Full blank page - dotted lines & solid lines (2 pages)
✅ Bonus: (124 pages)
☑ What you need to know (1 page)
☑ Table of contents (1 page)
☑ Black and white set (122 pages)
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✅ Creatures included: (27 animals)
☑ bear
☑ beaver
☑ bee
☑ blue jay
☑ buffalo
☑ coyote
☑ crab
☑ deer
☑ eagle
☑ fox
☑ frog
☑ heron
☑ hummingbird
☑ kingfisher
☑ loon
☑ moose
☑ otter
☑ owl
☑ rabbit
☑ raven
☑ sabe
☑ salmon
☑ seal
☑ thunderbird
☑ turtle
☑ whale
☑ wolf
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Thanks for stopping by and taking a look!
❤️Kimberly
