Totem Pole Activity

For this activity we created a totem pole. We started the activity by talking about what we know about totem poles. We then got a little background information about it, like how they are made, what kind of colors they use, and why they are made. After we finished the background information, we were asked to pick an animal we wanted to incorporate onto our totem pole. I chose to do a beaver and this was my final project. We had to have at least three different colors incorporated into it and at least 2 3D shapes on it. The ears and nose are 3D and I used the colors brown, blue, and purple. It was a really fun activity.

An extension activity for this would be to create the totem pole and then have then make a story to go along with it explaining what your totem pole means. This would be an activity for a language arts lesson.