Canadian Haida Prints

When I was visiting Niagara Falls last April I noticed these really cool Native American prints in the gift shops that reminded me of the stylized animal figures on totem poles. After doing some research I found they were related to the Inuit and Haida groups that live in Canada and the arctic regions. I carved some stamps from foam board into the shapes of bears and fish. We then took a paint roller and used either turquoise or red paint to create prints and the students added designs after with black crayon. As a class we also decorated a piece of a totem pole that I eventually put all together in a display.