What we learn from cave paintings
One of my 6th grade projects was making a simulated cave painting on a brown paper bag. I also had to make a paint brush with natural materials. The stories of cave paintings were first discovered in Lascaux , France in September 1940 by four teenagers - Marcel Rauidat, Jacqes Marsal, Georges Agnel, and Simon Coencas - and Marsal's dog, Robot. The boys heard about an old legend about tunnel that ran under the Vezere River which was connected to the Castle of Montignac. The drawings on cave walls had people and animals. The animals were horses, bison, mammoth, ibex and more. Imagine how exciting this discovery was for these teenagers. It was like looking at a giant journal on the walls of a cave. It tells us a bit about what the people back then hunted and what they ate. This is how I made my cave painting - I first cut a brown paper bag open and pretended that it was the cave wall. I then took beets, a vegetable that most kids love :-) I boiled the beets in water to...