Incredible Animal Stitchery!

Clockwise from the top: clown fish, lioness, seal, lynx, snake, shark

I love it when art can enhance student learning by aligning classroom content with creative projects. As one of my professional goals, I wanted to work closely with the third grade team and dig deeper into the curriculums and find ways to bring art and a deeper understanding to their classroom projects.  Biomes has provided a wealth of opportunities to connect content curriculum with the arts.

With this third grade group, we've made painting of the Maasai Tribe from the savanna, Antique Maps depicting their researched biome and now, a cross-stitch of an animal found in their biome.

Each student had to design a pattern of an animal from the biome they were studying.  This was then traced over in Sharpie and transferred onto burlap.  

Threading their needles