Grade 1 – Signs & Symbols

During the class unit on signs, pupils were encouraged to think about shapes and colours used on signs that they see in everyday life before creating their own imaginary signs that express their own rules and preferences. We looked at the hieroglyphs of Ancient Egypt and asked pupils to try to create their own symbolic alphabet. And after exploring how simple images relating to the animal and natural world are used as symbols to tell stories and represent various concepts in Native American and Australian Aboriginal cultures, pupils made some images of their own in a similar style. Then using foam board cut out into simple shapes and glued onto a strong cardboard backing, individual stamps were made that could have paint applied to it and be used to print the pupils’ symbol images multiple times.