Native American Heritage Crafts - Indigenous Rattle Writing Crafts & Activities
❤️Looking for a fun and creative way to celebrate Native American Heritage or Indigenous Peoples' Day in your classroom?
❤️Your students will love learning about traditional turtle shell rattles and how they were used in Native American cultures, while making beautiful 2D and 3D writing craft projects!
Then, continue learning with engaging extension activities (included)!
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✏️Get 2 crafts in one! Create a 3D rattle that makes real rattle sounds, or create a 2D paper version that can be hung up on bulletin boards!
✏️Use the cultural guide and symbols guide to teach (social studies & history) about turtle shell rattles and how they were used in Native American cultures.
✏️Students can choose from animal totems or pictographs to decorate their personalized turtle shell rattle!
✏️Crafts are differentiated! Students can color, draw, or decorate their crafts, choose from a variety of writing prompts, and writing sheet options (dotted vs. single lines etc.)
✏️Dive deeper with reading comprehension, true or false, vocabulary, and sentence-fixing worksheets!
✏️Use the arts and craft writing 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), 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!
⭐️Create a writing bulletin board, door, or hallway by displaying craftivities!
⭐️Please check out the preview and video for more details!
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✅ Includes: (124 pages)
Teaching Materials: (17 pages)
☑ Cultural information (5 pages)
☑ Animal totems guide and vocabulary (7 pages)
☑ Pictographs guide and vocabulary (5 pages)
Craft Projects: (86 pages)
3D Craft
☑ Craft directions (8 pages)
☑ Craft pieces (46 pages)
2D Craft
☑ Craft directions (5 pages)
☑ Craft pieces (27 pages)
Writing Projects: (9 pages)
☑ Writing and research ideas (1 page)
☑ Brainstorming graphic organizers (4 pages)
☑ "My Turtle Rattle" - dotted lines (1 page)
☑ "All About Turtle Rattles" - dotted lines (1 page)
☑ "My Turtle Rattle" - solid lines (1 page)
☑ "All About Turtle Rattles" - solid lines (1 page)
Worksheets: (12 pages)
☑ Reading comprehension (3 pages)
☑ True or False (3 pages)
☑ Vocabulary words (3 pages)
☑ Fix the sentences (3 pages)
✅ Bonus: (72 pages)
☑ What you need to know (1 page)
☑ Table of contents (2 pages)
☑ Black and white set (69 pages)
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✅ Animal symbols included: (13 animals)
☑ badger
☑ bear
☑ beaver
☑ deer
☑ fox
☑ frog
☑ moose
☑ otter
☑ owl
☑ rabbit
☑ squirrel
☑ thunderbird
☑ wolf
✅ Pictograph symbols included: (25)
☑ badger tracks (summer)
☑ bear (strength)
☑ bear paw (good omen)
☑ buffalo eye (alertness)
☑ big mountain (abundance)
☑ bird (carefree)
☑ brothers (loyalty)
☑ buffalo horns (success)
☑ butterfly (renewal)
☑ cactus (desert)
☑ coyote tracks (trickster)
☑ deer tracks (safety)
☑ drying rack (plenty of meat)
☑ eagle (freedom)
☑ eagle feather (chief)
☑ hogan (permanent home)
☑ horse (journey)
☑ lightning (power)
☑ Medicine Man's eye (wisdom)
☑ mountain range (destination)
☑ spider (good luck)
☑ sun (happiness)
☑ tipi (temporary home)
☑ turtle (protection)
☑ wolf paw (courage)
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If you have any questions, please contact me:
kimberly@kimberlysclassroom.com
Thanks for stopping by and taking a look. Wishing you a wonderful school year!
❤️Kimberly
