Art/Literature - Narnia
(Independent Study Course*)
"The Chronicles of Narnia" - Books 1-7
(Ages 8-12)
(Independent Study Course*)
"The Chronicles of Narnia" - Books 1-7
(Ages 8-12)
These weekly Independent Study Literature/Art Courses are geared toward students who would like to expand the breadth of their artistic talents as we dive into the respective worlds of the "The Chronicles of Narnia"..
Over the 2025 - 2026 school year (August - May), we will read each book in the respective series. Each week (of the thirty weeks), students will be assigned a corresponding art project to enhance and to bring life and purpose to their reading! The first semester focuses on a different art medium each week. Students are encouraged to engage more deeply into an art medium of their choice for the second semester. (That said, students may opt to use the materials of their choice for each lesson.) This is a true integrated project-based learning experience. Students encourage each other as they share their responsive art projects with the class each week through Padlet. Padlet. Students are motivated by knowing their artwork and explanations will be shared with their peers.
Over the years, Mrs. G's Art/Literature courses have proven highly successful, fun, and motivating for art-minded students!
Expectations for each lesson:
- Art Projects: – Complete the art project based on the reading.
- Write, record or video an explanation of your artistic response.
Examples of Narnia Projects
"The Magician's Nephew" - Pages 1-54
"Hello Mrs. G.,
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ere are some photos of my completed assignment. I had a really fun time this week. For my project based on The Magicians Nephew, I chose to depict the wood between the worlds, using a really cool modeling technique (using flour, water, and salt) that I just learned." - By Inga
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By Gianna - Sept 29th
By Emilie
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By Cecilia - Sept 29th
By Miriam
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"The Magician's Nephew" - Pages 55-109
Magnet Art -
By James
By Inga
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It is the room where they entered that it was pitch black but then star’s started to come in - Isabella
Magnet Painting - by Cecilia
By Gianna
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"The Magician's Nephew" - pages 110 - 166 (Your version of Narnia)
I portrayed the land of Narnia on a leaf, to capture the sunrise through the bright fall colors on my "canvas". - Inga
"Narnia" by Emilie
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By Cecilia
By Gianna
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"The Magician's Nephew" - pages 167-End
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"I cleaned and hollowed out a gourd to create the world of Narnia. I painted the ground to match the hillside and added painted rocks to serve as mountains. The pegasus, Fledge, is made of a twig I hand-carved, and I added a piece of a maple leaf for wings. On it, Pauly and Digaree are riding, one in front of the other, and they are made from twigs and string, attached to the top of the gourd by a thread. To photograph it I shined a flashlight in from a hole I made in the back of the gourd." - By Inga
"The Queen's Crown" - by Cecilia
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by Isabella
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By James
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"The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" - pages 1- 46
" I chose to depict the wardrobe from this weeks reading. I painted paper towels to make the clothes, and used dried grasses for the trees." - by Inga
Lamppost by James
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"My Narnian Creature" - by Cecilia
"My Narnian Creature" - by Miriam
By Gianna
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"The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" - pages 47-94
By Inga
by Isabella
By Cecilia
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By Gianna
"This is a picture of me going through my magic wardrobe. In the book, all of the kids go through the wardrobe, and I am following them. I used Adobe Photoshop Elements to put a picture of snowy woods into the wardrobe. The door is open, so I can step right in. I still made it back in time for class:)
By Melissa
By Emilie
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"The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" - pages 95-146
By Isabella
"I loved the part when thay walk in to see Aslan and the the dryads and nyads playing there harps so I made a song up on my piano that I imagined the music sounded like. I've attached a video of me playing it.
I also wrote the music down and decorated the sheet music with flowers. " - By Inga
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"My drink is when Father Christmas gives them breakfast; with Peter, Susun and Lucy. When Edmund goes and betrays them to the White Witch.While Father Christmas gives Peter a sword ,and Lucy a drink, and Susun a bow and horn."
James
Lucy’s Bottle of healing potion - By Gianna
As the "Spring" flowers.. a checkers game between Peter (Red flowers) and the White Witch (Blue Ice) - by Cecilia
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"The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" - pages 147-206
"I decided to draw Aslan when he rises from the stone table I used glitter to make him stand out of the page and I painted a light brown for his face." - By Inga
"The Four Thrones" ** By Gianna
"I embroidered Aslan." *****.
by Cecilia
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By Isabella
By James
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"The Horse and His Boy " - pages 1-52
"The Horse and His Boy " - pages 1-52
Created by Sarah
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I made a horse because of the horse in the book. He is an outline of a horse on paper, but with pasted-on cardstock eyes, mouth, mane, tail, and hooves." - by Emelie
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"A charcoal painting of a fish from the fishermen's house. I used my finger to smudge the charcoal and with a pencil, I drew the outline! " - by Inga
"I Gelli printed a Narnian Horse" - By Cecilia
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Scratch - Coding Project (Image) - By Emelie
Horse Sketch - by Gianna
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"The Horse and His Boy " - Chapters 7-9
By Isabella
By James
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" I chose to make a stamp that depicted one of the Calormenes businesses for when the Narnians fled and had to rent dancers, magicians ect, using the tools to make a stamp I carved it and chose a red brown for the color, I wanted to write the name of the business so I decided to write in Aribic for that is what I imagine the language in Calormen." ----- By Inga
By Gianna
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"The Horse and His Boy " - Chapters 10-12
"I had an inspiration to make the horse and his boy out of craft wire." By Sarah
" I chose to do a charcoal painting of Narnia for When Aslan leads Shasta." - by Inga
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By James
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"The Door" - by Inga
"Prince Caspian " - Chapters 5-7
By James
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For this week a Drew with pastels, so that it would look like a cave drawing, I depicted the dwarves and badgers cave with Prince Caspian lying on a bench, on the other side of the page I drew a dark brown so that it would look like the picture is set in the cave. By Inga
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By Isabella
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"Prince Caspian " - Chapters 8 -10
Bookmark. By Gianna
Digital Art by Angelica
By James
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"This is the forest that the kids and the dwarf travel through on their way to find Caspian. I made it on the iPad using my Apple Pencil and the app Procreate, which is digital art. " - By Sarah
By Isabella
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"Prince Caspian " - Chapters 11- 15
"Prince Caspian " - Chapters 11- 15
By James
" I chose to take a picturesque photograph of our forest depicting the trees coming alive. The flat spot of grass is where I imagine the fight going on." - By Inga
"Snow Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy" - by Miriam
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"I baked the chocolate-looking loam that the trees eat. Except mine is real chocolate and even Edmund would like the taste (it’s really pretzel bark). I wish I was at the feast in the book!" By Sarah S
"I made a collage of all of the animals sitting around with their feet to the fire after the fight. I used scrapbooking paper and some Gelli Prints to represent the characters and the fire." - by Cecilia
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"Aslan" by Emilie
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"Aslan" by Gianna
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"The Voyage of the Dawn Treader " - Chapters 1-4
"The Voyage of the Dawn Treader " - Chapters 1-4
by James
"Picture of a ship. Lucy wearing clothes that are too big for her " - By Gianna
"The Dawn Treader" - by Miriam
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By Sarah
"For this weeks assignment I made a replica of what I think the Dawn Treader’s figurehead look like out of aluminum with my brother. I carved the figurehead out of foam and buried it in some sand. We heated up blocks of aluminum in a foundry and then cast it into the foam. That way the molten aluminum melted the foam leaving aluminum in its place." - By Inga
"Reepicheep" by Cecilia
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"The Voyage of the Dawn Treader " - Chapters 5-6
"Eustace turned into a dragon " - By Gianna
" I chose to do a portrait of Lucy with charcoal." - By Inga
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"I made this with my Apple Pencil which I picked again because I have learned a lot more since I made the trees. It was really fun to make." - Sarah
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"The Voyage of the Dawn Treader " - Chapters 14-16
"I decided to draw an island, which is a place I would once like to go to, but I don't know what to expect once I arrive, so I drew what I think will happen. being surrounded by sharks..." - By Isabella
"Aslan" - by James
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" I chose to depict the scene of when Eustace, Lucy and Edmund meet Aslan in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I did it with acrylic pain and watercolor combined." - By Inga
"The Sea People" - by Gianna
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"The Silver Chair" - Chapters 1-4
""Clouds" by Inga
by Emilie
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"Owl" by James
"Drawbridge" - by Cecilia
Eustace falling by Gianna
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"The Silver Chair" - Chapters 5-7
" for this week's assignment I chose to depict the scene where Jill and Eustis find Puddleglum, I painted it with watercolor and then with thread I went over it on the paper, I used dule colors for the marsh with the thread so that it would go with the sad mood of Puddleglum." - By Inga
This is the sky and snowflakes (beeswax candle). - By Sarah S
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"Jill trying to sleep." - By Gianna
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"The Silver Chair" - Chapters 8-10
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Forced Perspective Photos - by James
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"They are of the ruined city of giants"
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"The earth people " - by Gianna
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"The Silver Chair" - Chapters 11-13
"For this assignment I chose to depict the scene in the Underworld where all the Earthmen are celebrating. I did it with chalk pastel pencils, so that I could draw the mood. " - By Inga
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I drew this because, in the beginning, there is a tree that has no leaves, which is what happens during fall. In the end, there is a tree that has millions, and millions of leaves and flowers. Which at the beginning, during fall the tree has no leaves, or flowers which doesn't look soo bad, but it doesn't look super pretty either, and then during the spring the tree has leaves, and flowers, which makes it look super nice.
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/511522372 - By Isabella 
"The Silver Chair" - by Gianna
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"The Silver Chair" - Chapters 14- End
By Isabella
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By James
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By Gianna
By Sarah
"For this week's assignment I decided to use pastels to draw the stars, since that’s what Jill saw upon getting out of the underworld. Because they met animals, I decided to show Ursa Major, the great bear." - By Inga
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"The Pipe Flute for the dancing and the partying:!"
-By Cecilia
By Miriam
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"The Last Battle" - Chapters 1- 4
"Night sky in chalk pastels." - By Sarah
"Here is my Narnia project. It’s a drawing of a water fall. I used pencils, sharpies, and markers. " - By Isabella
"This is what was left over when the king was cut from the tree with the dagger." - By Cecilia
"Shift and Puzzle" by Gianna
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"A Clay Sword" - By James
"For this weeks assignment I chose to draw an optical-illusion, for when the donkey deceived the other animals to think that he was Aslan, on the picture below there are 4 boxes but on the other side there is 3! " ------------ By Inga
"A Raft". By Emilie Grace
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"The Last Battle" - Chapters 5 - 8
"Here is my Narnia project. If you look closely you can see the words Cave. I actually followed a tutorial that used the word cave to actually draw a cave. " - By Isabella
"The King's Keys" - By Gianna
"I made a house out of cardboard. It was fun.
I made this house because there is a scene where they went to the tower to get weapons and other things.
I also made two garages and put some things in the house and in the garage.
I made a tall garage and a wide garage.
The tall garage is for tall things and the wide garage is for wide things.
I put a table, some chairs, a bed, a desk with a computer, a hand ball court, a slide, and some toys.
And do not know if I have some stuff in the garages" - By Timothy
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"For this weeks assignment, I chose to do a mood board of the last battle, I cut out pictures from magazines to set the “mood”! " - By Inga
" I made a picture of someone that only has a cup of water like the people in the book. I made it with pixlr, its a photo editor and I used a picture of a cup and drew most of the rest except the text." - by Emilie
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"The Last Battle" - Chapters 9 - 12
"Jill Eustace Digory Polly and Lucy, Edmund and Peter" - By Gianna
By James
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By Isabella
"For this weeks assignment, I chose to depict the cat that comes out of the shed and is vary scared, i did it with acrylic paints. i wanted the cat to be the main vocal point so the back ground is black." - By Inga
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