Navajo Design

Keeping with the western theme, 6th graders worked on pattern and design by making Navajo Tapestries.  Students watched a short clip about Navajo rug makers and learned how colors were limited due to the color of the fleece of the sheep.  I had students design their own rugs using similar shapes and patterns that they saw in Navajo examples and then select a limited palate of three colors to work with.  Afterwards, we sketched cow skulls to add onto their tapestries.