The last of our multi-cultural lessons...Notan is a design concept involving the play of light and dark as they are placed next to each other in art. This is a cut paper project and is a good one for teaching about positive and negative space.
This project only takes about two class periods to complete and the results are always impressive! On day one. each student received a four inch square and was asked to draw two to three shapes per side. Drawing a shape within the shape was an added challenge. Then they cut all the shapes out and placed them in an envelop. On day two they put there puzzle together. Then they start gluing. The remains of the square or the "negative space" goes down first in such a way that the longer shapes have enough room to flip out. Now they flip all of the shapes a out to create a mirror image.
I am amazed at how some were able to achieve such high levels of detail with our not so great scissors.
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