Ancient and Medieval Mosaics
You make the simplest kind of mosaic by taking a lot of black and white pebbles and arranging them on a bed of wet cement on the floor so that they make some sort of pattern, like a checkerboard or a line of black around the outside of the room.
When the cement dries, you have a nice hard floor in
your house which is also attractive.
The Greeks did a
lot of this kind of mosaic in fancier houses. (Click
here for a project idea).
More about mosaics
To find out more about mosaics, check out these books from Amazon.com or from your library:
Mosaics (Step-By-Step Children's Crafts Series), by Michelle Powell (2001). How to make your own mosaics using easily available materials, for kids.
Ancient Mosaics, by Roger Ling (1998). A look not only at the mosaics themselves, but also why people made them, who made them, and how.
