History of Ice Skating + Art Study

Many of the resources we used for our study were from the WillowandOwl.com Ice Skating Unit 

We notebook our findings!

Our kids love ice skating outside and at our indoor rink.  M just finished taking a term of lessons and with it being winter, it was a fun time for us to do an ice skating study with a field trip to go skate!

Dutch Artist: Hendrick Avercamp "Winter Landscape with Skaters" and other paintings. We learned that Avercamp was deaf and mute.  He used his powerful observation skills to paint amazing winter scenes! It is fun to watch the video about the history of skating and then look at fine art and notice the different skates and how they evolve over time!

History of Ice Skating:

an older design in action-history of ice skating

Another Ice Skating History video (animated)

How to draw an ice skater

Henry Takes the Ice Read aloud

We also enjoyed the art of Jean-Georges Beraud "Women Skating" and Gilbert Stuart's "The Skater" --portrait of Scotsman William Stuart (1782).

We enjoyed looking at these old magazines and patent pictures from the Spalding company in 1916 via the online library.

And just for fun, we watched ice sailing too! It's amazing to see how technology has changed the humble ice skate!

And Ice Yachting!