Earth paints

Earth Paints  (School Journal Part 1 Number 5 2004)

Read the text on pages 14 and 15 to find the answers

What did traditional Aboriginal artists use paint for?

To Decorate their faces and bodies and to decorate  rocks and

walls.

What did they make their paint from?

Coloured rocks and clay

How many different types of soil did the children find in their district?  

8

Match the soil to where they found it. The first one is done for you.

Soft brown soil - vegetable garden

Dark brown earth - in the Compost

Black peat - near a Swamp

Reddish-brown soil - under the bank

Yellow clay - beside the Stream

Blue clay - River

Orange clay - a Bank

Pinky-grey soil -  at Building Site

building site, river, near a swamp, vegetable garden, under the bark,

a bank, beside a stream, in the compost

Make some new words

art    cart      dart     part      start     

clay     bay      day    fray   gray     hay     may     play  

          pray     ray    say     slay     stay    tray    way

hunt     blunt     grunt     shunt