This journal assignment should demonstrate your ability to:
· Analyze tools, materials, and processes used to make art.
· Experiment with tools, materials, and processes to discover visual effects.
· Identify questions or problems in your own art making.

Getting Started
Your teacher may limit your choice of tools, materials, and processes, and, therefore, may change this assignment.
Review the ideas and shapes you considered for your Treasure Box in Lesson One. Experiment with tools, materials, and processes to construct your Treasure Box. For example you can make a box by:

• Constructing a box through folding and attaching tabs. Click to see how Native American parfleche cases are made. Click here for instructions to make a birchbark container
• Using papier mache perhaps over an existing box, balloon, or paper armature. Click to learn more about working in papier mache.
• Gluing and tacking balsa or other wood
• Adapting and transforming an existing box, such as a matchbox with sliding lid
  
• Making slabs or coils from clay
• Making an origami folded - paper box

Also experiment with tools, materials, and processes you might use to decorate your treasure box.

Checklist
I included:

1. My idea from Lesson One or my new idea
   
2. (OPTIONAL) New sketch for the shape of my box
   
3. Sketch of my idea for decorating my treasure box
   
4. Sample experiments with different tools and/or materials
   
5. What I learned through my experimentation
   
6. List of tools and materials I've decided to use to make my Treasure Box
   
7. A question or problem I'm still working on
   

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