1. Aboriginal Art
From Australia

2.
Aboriginal people are indigenous (the first)
Australians. They tell stories in words and pictures
about how the world began. They call this
Dreamtime. Their stories are called ‘Dreamings’.

3. Can you point Australia on the map?

4. Australia’s deserts

6. ABORIGINAL ART TECNICHE
They used their fingers or sticks for painting.
There weren’t any art shops where they could buy brushes!
Aboriginal art includes lots of symbols for the natural things
around them.

8. Aboriginal art uses 'Earth Colours'.
Why?

9. ABORIGINAL COLOURS
• Black represents the
night and the
aboriginal people.
• Yellow represents the
sun, it is the sacred
colour.
• Red is the colour of
the land and the blood.
• White is the spirit
colour

10. These are the colours of the desert. Aboriginal
artists made their paints from natural
materials.
Aboriginal paintings also use lots of dots.

11. ABORIGINAL INSTRUMENTS
• Aboriginal traditional music
consists of rhythmic singing
supported by few
instruments.
• Traditional Aboriginal
instruments are almost
always percussive involve
beating , for example:
handclaps, body slapping or
hitting of clapsticks. The
most important non-
percussive instrument is the
didgeridoo.

12. LET’S WATCH A VIDEO
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=c5Sou45vT1s

16. Let’s have a look!
• https://www.google.com/search?
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=1024&bih=641&q=world+map&oq=world+&
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intings&tbm=isch&i

18. Can you answer the following questions?
1.Where did the aboriginal people live?
2. Where does the aboriginal art come from? From which
continent?
3. The aboriginal told stories. How did they call these strories?
4. Can you name some of the deserts in Australia?
5. What technique did they use for their paintings?
6. Can you name same of the aboriginal symbols?
7. What are the main colours of aboriginal art?
8. Where did they get the materials for their paintings?
A) from the sea. B) from the nature C) from the desert

19. Let’s create a dot painting.
Watch the following
video.Pay attention to the
technique:
http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?
v=uFgwtBYbUDc
• Now use your imagination
and create your own
aboriginal painting.
• Choose one of the
aboriginal symbols that
you like best.
• Use your pencil for drawing
it and colour with dots.

20. “DREAMTIME”
You are going to
watch a video about
an aboriginal story:
• http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=xDJrnldb08o
LET’S PAINT:
• Draw with the pencil
a picture inspired by
the dreamtime.
• Use construction
paper.
• Paint the picture,
using the dot’s
technique.

21. A COLOURFUL TAPESTRY
Activity group
• In this activity you are
going to work in a group
to design a tapestry.
• Draw a draft on a piece
of paper .
• Later copy the draft on
the fabric.
• Finally colour it with
dots.
Materials
• Pencils, piece of papers, a
fabric, sticks and paints.

22. The boomerang
• the Australian
Aborigines are one
of the few cultures
in history that never
have used a bow
and arrow, they
depended on the
boomerang for
hunting .

23. LET’S MAKE A BOOMERANG
• In the following art activity
we are going to use
modelling clay:
1. Shape the clay into a
boomerang.
2. Let the boomerang dry for
a week.
3. Draw a design similar to the
aboriginal ones and paint it
with sticks.

24. Let’s make a rain stick
How to make a rain stick:
• http://www.enchantedlear
ning.com/crafts/music/rains
tick/
What is a rain stick?
• It is a tool that was used in
some Native cultures to
bring rain during dry
periods.
• It was made from cactus
and has today been
adopted as popular musical
instrument around the
world.