Designing a creative village is very important for story telling. From native Indian villages to minecraft villages, there are lots of different styles and designs throughout history for us to explore and enjoy. From this project, students came up with amazing ideas for people or imaginary characters to live and interact with each other in the village they created. However, unlike a conventional village, we challenged our little artists to create a mushroom village by bringing in real mushrooms into the classroom! The students got to feel and see the mushrooms and then replicated them with clay. They then got to design and paint their villages, complete with their own choice of characters, amenities, and features. Be sure to take a look at all of these impressive villages, from accommodations for the handicapped in a wheelchair to gorgeous ponds and lakes for their characters our Little Ashcaners thought of everything and more. Just be careful not to go too close to the lake, some villagers spotted at an alligator there!
