Sidewalk Chalk Art

At first my group and I had no idea what to do. We were even kind of confused on what exactly what the project was. The first thing we did, individually, was think of symbols to represent us. A teacher gave us a great example, the Presidential Seal. The Eagle represents America, the arrow for war and the olive branch for peace. That helped us as a group to put things together and think outside the box.

For my symbol I used a ballet shoe to represent me as a dancer. For the rest of my group there were ants, an elephant, basketball, and a fleur de lis. Each one of these symbols had a meaning behind it to represent each person. To put these all together we, tried, to make it look like the word (key word tried). An example is the elephant, it takes place as Africa.

For the most part my group pretty much played it by ear. I think we thought it would turn out a little better than it did, but it could've been a lot worse. Looking back now we should've thought it out and planned it a little bit better. In all this activity was really fun and I got to learn a little bit about everyone, not just people in my group, and I would give it a 10/10!

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