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Copper Breastplates

 

Copper breast plates

Strand: Art
Grade Level: 4 - 6
Duration: 45 minutes
Location: classroom
Objective: Students should gain an understanding of the Woodland people by experiencing their customs through crafts.
Materials: large paper grocery bags
string, twine, or yarn
crayons, paint, or markers
paper punch
Vocabulary: custom
Procedure:
  1. To make copper breast plates that were worn for ceremonies, you will need a grocery bag for each student.
  2. Carefully cut a slit down the middle of the bag. Now cut the bag at the folded crease. Cut armholes on the sides of the bag.
  3. Have students decorate the bags with symbols, animals, etc. They may wish to draw beads or small designs to tell a story.
  4. With a paper punch, punch a hole in each side of the back flap. Put string through the punched hole on each side, and tie at one end. Tie the bag in the back using the other ends of the strings.
 






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Did You Know?
Stephen H. Long, of the U.S. Army's Topographical Engineers, explored and described the Effigy Mounds National Monument region in expeditions undertaken in 1817 and 1823. Long was one of the first to document the presence of mounds in the Upper Mississippi River Valley.
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