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Design Your Personal Cloak
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Make an Identity Accordion-Zine
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Pen a Pantoum
Learn about the form of poetry called the pantoum and then write one of your own!
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Odon the Giant - Story Time Draw Along
Students will draw their favorite unlikely, small hero from the Philippine folk tale “Odon the Giant.”
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Pacita Abad: Mixed-Media Paintings
Create a colorful, mixed media painting inspired by artist Pacita Abad.
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Asian Art Museum Virtual Scavenger Hunt
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Make Bracelets Inspired by Indonesian Jewelry
The most famous region for the manufacture and trade of golden jewelry lay in Sumatra’s northernmost province of Aceh, where these finely worked bracelets were produced. Make your own bracelets inspired by Indonesian jewelry.
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Lunar New Year Zodiac Animals: Coloring Pages
The Chinese Zodiac is based on a twelve-year cycle and each year is linked to an animal. Find your birth year and color in your zodiac animal.
Background Information
Arts of the Islamic World
Islam has been an important cultural force in much of Asia for more than five hundred years, and in some parts for more than a thousand. Today, far more Muslims live in other parts of Asia than in the Arab areas of Asia such as Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Syria.