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Mandalas vs Kaleidascopes

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From: Kara LiCausi (klicausi_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Date: Tue Sep 30 2003 - 05:36:08 PDT

Last year I had 7th graders design Mandalas. I tried not to bring in the religious overtones...but instead had them create designs that were based around the cycles of nature. The designs had to be symmetrical in some way. After doing colored pencil drawing, we made them out of clay and painted them with tempera.
   This year I did Kaleidascope designs where the kids made a single pie shape and repeated it 8 times around their cirlce. We colored with colored pencil paying close attention to color schemes and shading. These drawings were much more detailed than the Mandalas and we did not reproduce them in clay.
   Both projects came out beautifully. I have lots of digital pictures of these...but have not yet learned how to add pictures to my schools website..there are pictures there from 2000! I would love to share these pictures with anybody who is interested...does anybody have any easy ideas of how I can post them?
   Thanks!
Kara in Northport 

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