High school kids could more easily do the reverse appliqué with
cut paper. Students could depict their personal "animal symbol"
or depict an event from their life. Might be even kind of neat
to develope a 3-D layered effect-- leave some space between the
layers using foam core board? -- like a shadow box? It might be
nice to try this idea with technology -- have the students draw
the animal or figures on the computer --then develop the design
with copy - paste -scaling the image larger on the first layers
to create the radiating lines around it. I can see some
interesting symmetrical designs then created using the flip
features -- even some radial designs... possibilities are
endless (but..of course yu know more about how to do all of that
stuff than I do). I would be interested too in seeing lesson
plans folks have used with Have the student learn about
Aboriginal Dreamtime - but don't have them copy the symbols of
the Aboriginal people. They view this as disrespectful. Have
students design symbols to repres