Dreamcatcher

While looking at Native American art, we studied how not all Native American tribes are the same and not all of them have the same art. Dream catchers come from the Ojibwa tribe which originates from northern Wisconsin and Canada-area. A dream catcher is originally made out of a willow hoop and decorated with beads and feathers. The strings going across the middle are like a spiders web that catches bad dreams at night and allows the good dreams to come down the feathers. 

Students made a dream catcher by making a metal hoop, wrapping pipe-cleaners around it, then making a design across the hoop with the pipe-cleaners (and adding beads if they wanted). They then used the pipe-cleaners to attach feathers at the end. After that, they could paint any parts they wanted with acrylic paint.