Category Archives: Cave Art

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1. Combine all ingredients in a bowl.  Stir until blended.
2. Gather the mixture together with your hands.
3. Knead on a smooth surface until you have smooth dough.
4. Store dough in a plastic bag or a plastic container.  Don’t let it dry out.
5. Divide into 3” balls.
6. Shape ball into flat irregular rock.  Place on waxed paper or styrophome plate.  Make it thick to support the imprint.
7. Initial or write name on back of rock dough design before imprinting with tape piece or toothpick.
8. Imprint an animal stencil (deer, horse, zebra, moose, buffalo) into dough.  Be sure you rock the animal back and forth to imprint entire thing. Still not pressing too hard.  Or have a stencil that can be traced around.
9. Incise edges with edge of a toothpick for extra design.
10. If desired to be a necklace – put a hole in the top with a straw.   This is not necessary though.  It could just be a paperweight or decorate piece.
11. Paint animal imprint (carefully) in black, red, orange, or yellow using a very small brush and dabbing paint on the animal.

The sandpaper replicates the roughness of the caves walls.

Trace a stencil of animals.

Color in with crayons.

This sample has a hand traced on the side.

Another idea would be to have the hand traced on the sandpaper and colored in using crayons.

Take it one step further and make animals out of the hand tracing.  Color in with crayon.

Have the kids crumple up craft paper.  Or, you can use large brown paper bags and cut them up into large pieces.

Use stencils to trace animals or have pictures that they can use to copy.

Color in using earth colored crayons or earth colored chalks.