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All educational programs cost $135 each. This includes a 1 ½ hour program and all materials used for the hands-on project |
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HOPI POTTERY How do the Hopi process clay and make their pots? These questions will be answered through demonstration, pictures and the actual use of Hopi tools with clay. Students will then be given clay to try their hand at creating a small pot using the coils and scrape technique of the Hopi. They will each use gourd pieces for scraping the clay like the Hopi. The pot may be brightly decorated with tempera or acrylic paint when dry. K & up HOPI BLUE CORN The importance of colored corn in Hopi foods and ceremonies will be emphasized using traditional kitchen tools and pictures. Shelling, sifting and grinding of blue corn will be demonstrated. Then it is time for each student to roll out a blue corn tortilla, watch it bubble on the griddle, and after adding cinnamon/sugar and butter, m-m-m good! A colored corn bracelet may be strung in place of tortilla making. K & up
NAVAJO SAND PAINTING The
ARIZONA BASKETRY The history of baskets in Arizona goes back thousands of years. This story will be told and enhanced with examples of baskets and demonstrations of how desert plants are used to make baskets by the indigenous people of Arizona. The culmination will be the weaving of a small basket using the twining technique, one of the oldest basketry stitches in the west. 4th Grade & up PIMA COTTON White, brown, pink and green, the story of Arizona cotton will unfold beginning with the Hohokam, the Pima and then the farmers of today. Demonstration of ginning, carding and spinning a cotton yarn using a Pima spindle will help in the telling. Then students will weave on their own looms, a bookmark or a coaster rug using colorful cotton yarns. After the weaving is completed, each student will gin some cotton by hand. 3rd Grade & up |
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Copyright by Southwest Learning Sources, Inc., 2007 |
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SLS HOME Programs Learning Kits To Reserve Teacher & Student Feedback |
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NAVAJO WEAVING Demonstrations of shearing, carding and spinning of wool using Navajo tools will help students understand the steps taken by a Navajo weaver to produce a rug. Then each student will be given their own loom on which to weave a small coaster rug. They will select from a wide variety of colored yarns to create their own symmetrical pattern. K & up
hand trembler and hatalli (medicine man) are both important to deciding which ceremony will be used for the sick patient. Dry (sand) paintings are an important part of the curing ceremonies. After hearing the role of dry paintings, students will create a dry painting using colored sands. They will invent their own designs or one reminiscent of the sand paintings sold by the Navajo today. 4th Grade & up
APACHE BEADING Beads from egg shell to glass, the story of beads is recreated for the students by showing antique samples. The beaded ceremonial dress worn in the Sunrise Ceremony by young Apache Women will be used to describe the different beading techniques used by the Apache. The students will then bead a daisy chain or coyote track bracelet using vintage pony beads. 3rd Grade & up