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Classroom Activity: Make a Decorative Scroll

Classroom Activity: Make a Decorative Scroll
Photo: Jon-Phillip Sheridan © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts ChinaFest! Year of the Wood Sheep
  • Type: Classroom Activity
  • Collection: East Asian Art
  • Culture/Region: East Asia
  • Subject Area: Fine Arts
  • Grade Level: Elementary

Painting has been an important part of the Chinese culture for centuries. Learn about how scrolls were an artistic and scholarly form of expression highly valued in the Forbidden City, and assemble and paint a scroll of your own!

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