Animism and Nature Art Projects

Animism is the worshipping of animals/nature and their "spirits". Many Ancient cultures around the world including native Americans, indigenous African peoples, and European tribes such as the Celts, Guals, and Germanic

tribes.

While studying the importance of nature to many these groups, we used our own backyard nature to create "nature drawings".

First we spend time outside picking off of items we had around our school and collecting them in boxes- we did this in the late fall, so it was okay that many of the items were picked as they were going to be dying very soon - you would want to control the picking if this wasn't the case for your students!

Next we sorted our treasures and worked with them to create a design.

Finally, we used wet glue to paste them down onto strong card stock paper.