Explore Mexican folk art with these Alebrijes projects and watch your students create amazing artwork! Perfect for Hispanic Heritage Month, while studying folk art or Mexican culture, or any time of year, these 5 projects vary in complexity and are designed for elementary students. 

This lesson is highly engaging, contains 5 separate projects plus 3 drawing guides & 4 templates, and is cross-curricular. 

This resource is in a PDF file and contains 39 pages.  It includes:

• Cross-curricular lesson with detailed instructions & photos for 5 alebrijes projects

• Alebrijes facts & photos

• Hispanic Heritage Month facts

• 3 drawing guides

• 4 alebrije templates

• Cross-curricular & literacy connections

• Project & material variations

• Guide to transferring images with graphite

• National Core Arts Standards & TEKS (Texas) for Kindergarten - 5th grades

This resource provides a huge variety of projects and sample alebrijes that can be mixed & matched to create even more projects.  Use projects as designed or use them as inspiration for your students to create bright & colorful artwork for display. 

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Thank you!

Deborah

Down in the Art Room