African Tribal Masks

The class made African Tribal Masks as part of learning about the countries of our world.

They turned our unique and adorable.

The children were shown pictures of tribal masks.  The unique designs and colors were pointed out to them and discussed as a group.  Then each child got a paper with an oval shape and two "cut" lines on the top and bottom.  They each got to draw their own designs and were encouraged to use many colors.

Then they used liquid watercolors to paint over their tribal mask.  When they were dry, they were cut out, the teacher cut the line on the top and bottom of the mask and then overlapped them and stapled them to give them a three dimensional appearance.