Week 5: Rangoli

Date: October 10, 2009

Lesson Title: Rangoli

Subject: Art

Activities and lesson notes:

After a short discussion

- of the traditional art of rangoli in India (when, where and by whom—and have they ever seen it or know someone who does it?)

- asking to keep the artwork to display at the 10/24 Diwali celebration (no class next week)

- reminding to handle chalk carefully or it will break and to work left to right and top to bottom so as not to smudge (reverse for lefties)...

We will create our own rangoli, in a slightly non-traditional way. We'll use pressed chalk sticks and black construction paper for our designs, and map them out before hand with pencil on paper with a grid of dots.

Sources:

http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/rangoli.htm

http://www.diwalifestival.org/diwali-rangoli.html

http://www.4to40.com/activities/artcraft/index.asp?article=activities_artcraft_rangoli1

http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/art/rangoli.htm

Materials needed:

white paper with gridwork of dots

pencils

black construction paper with gridwork of dots

chalks

cleanup bin

music (of course)