Native American Storytelling

Materials:

• Watercolor paints
• Paint brushes
• Cups for water
• Large white paper
• Brown paper bags
• Brown crayons
• Black markers or Sharpies

In this lesson, we learned about Native American symbols and how they used pictures to tell stories. We also learned about different watercolor painting styles that we could use for our sunset background. Then using the symbols they gave us we created our own story, needing at least 6 symbols to describe it. My story was in the morning a woman ran to the river to discover a man. 

Extension Activity
For this lesson, you could have your students research Native American symbols and try and have them decode some examples that you would have ready for them.