Introduce your class to Inuit prints and use these artworks as inspiration for a printmaking activity. Pupils make stories to go along with the images and then come up with their own heroic moments to illustrate. They take moments from their hero stories and use them to create stencils and prints. A presentation follows.

Concepts

principles of design, design, elements of design, printmaking

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Additional Tags

inuit art, printmaking, stenciling, heroic story, elements of design, principles of design, visual and performing arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Extend the writing portion of the lesson and require pupils to fully develop and revise their stories;
• Have learners create more than one print to go with their writing in order to create storybooks

Classroom Considerations

• An actual presentation of the images is not included; however, the images provided could be transferred over to a presentation that you create

Pros

• The cross-curricular lesson combines story writing and art
• Comes with a rubric, extension ideas, images, materials lists, and more

Cons

• None