Hands-on Ancient Greece Activities Art, Crafts, Model Parthenon Year 4,5,6,7

Do you need some hands-on activities to bring your Ancient Greece unit to life? This pack has 6 hands-on activities that include writing the ancient Greek alphabet, making ancient Greek coins, making a miniature clay amphora (vase), sgraffito art inspired by ancient Greek art, weaving, and making a 3D model of the Parthenon. Many of these activities can meet the learning objectives of the art curriculum at the same time.

This pack comes with a PDF slideshow version of instructions, plus a student handout version for the art activities. There are also three pages of photos of real artefacts to use for inspiration.

What’s included?

• Teacher’s guide
• Photos for inspiration
• Self-reflection
• Artist statement

Student instructions for:

• Make a 3D Parthenon model - with steps (for more capable students) and without (for an easier version)
• Make a clay amphora
• Make clay or salt dough coins
• Draw an aspect of ancient Greek life using the sgraffito technique with oil pastels
• Write the ancient Greek alphabet
• Try weaving using wool

You will need:

• A4 paper
• scissors, glue/glue sticks
• paint (poster or acrylic)
• strong card
• a variety of colourful wool
• tape
• pencils, colouring pencils
• oil pastels
• air-drying clay and rolling/marking tools

Please note the Parthenon model is not to scale and is an artistic representation, not a realistic representation.

*60 pages included
You will receive a zip file with PDFs.

I hope you enjoy using this pack with your students.

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