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Paper bags
Art Gum erasers and oak tag to make stamps and stencils with geometric designs
Markers - brown, black, orange, yellow (earth colors)
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Kapa cloth was made by ancient Hawaiians. They beat strips of mulberry tree bark into a soft, sturdy cloth, then printed patterns and designs on the cloth with natural dyes and stamps.
You
can make "kapa cloth" and print it in your classroom using paper
bags, markers, paint and stamps.
1. Cut the paper bag into large sheets. Make your sheet soft by scrunching it into a ball and smoothing it out twenty times.
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For stamps, have your teacher or an adult cut designs in the top of
an art gum eraser, and cut designs in small strips of oak tag.
3. Use tempra paint to stamp designs on your "kapa cloth."
4. Use the markers to draw designs and Hawaiian figures on your cloth. The designs on the dresses for this Hawaiian hand puppet were made with stencils and stamps and acrylic paint.
These pretty pictures were made using crayons and water color paints, using the "crayon-resist" method.
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