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medieval art
By LLK

I taught the regular social studies for my 6th graders, but I did do a couple of successful art projects with this unit. We did a mock stain glass project, using black construction paper and tissue paper. They looked nice
hanging in the large windows of our cafeteria. I also did a illuminations project....I found some fancy alphbet letters, the kids copied them by 'eyeballing' it to make each letter as large as a regular piece of paper, and then they colored them. I showed several examples from books on the fancy leaves, etc. that were used in medieval times. On the day we 'colored', I had them pretend

to be monks in a scriptorium. It was fun. I backed the letters on black construction paper. Easy yet striking when all posted together in a row in the hallway.
Hope this helps.