Ormond Primary School

How To:

• Have students research Morocco using books from the library, cook books/ Interior Decorator, Books and the Internet.
• Research Moroccan culture linking colour and pattern-design and function.
• As students learn about the art produced by people of another culture (4.4) they discover that it tells them many things about what these people did, knew and believed. Geometric motifs were popular with Islamic artists and as Islam spread from nation to nation the artists combined their love of geometry with pre-existing traditions, creating a new and distinctive Islamic art.
• This art expressed the logic and order inherent in the Islamic vision of the universe.
• Artists used these shapes to create visual statements about religious ideas.

Materials:

• Cardboard, scissors, PVA glue, silver foil, paint (red/black/purple), masking tape,
• Hot glue and guns, armature wire, thin nosed pliers, coloured wooden beads, black cartridge paper, acetate sheets.

Procedure:

• Students prepare the template by folding their cardboard into 1/2 and 1/2 again (4 panels), discuss symmetry.
• At each section at the top of the folded cardboard, draw an arch. This will create a dome shaped top to the lantern.
• Cut out the bottom area to create legs (keep the Moroccan pattern repeating)
• Cut out 4 windows, (keep the repeated Moroccan design) on each panel.
• Cover cardboard with PVA and a layer of slightly scrunched aluminium foil.
• Insert acetate sheets for the windows with photocopied Islamic patterns.
• Choose a colour and paint over the surface.
• Immediately rub off with paper towelling to create an old/ worn effect.
• Create an edging using black cartridge paper, hot gluing decorations around the edges.
• Insert decorated wire in the top of the lantern and hot glue into place.