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Pililita!—Let’s Create!

Use our instructions and your imagination to explore the Alutiiq world!  These hands-on activities use simple supplies and they are designed for use at home and in the classroom. Pililita!—Let’s Create!

Illustrations by David Tucker, produced with support of the Munartet Project and the Alaska State Council on the Arts.

Craft Videos

Created with support from the City of Kodiak and the Alaska State Council on the Arts.

Gayla Pedersen harvests kelp in Chiniak Bay.

Plant Crafts

Learn how to harvest, clean, craft, and cook with Kodiak’s wild plants. This set of videos features a plant walk with culture bearer Gayla Pedersen and a series of tutorials. Make a healing salve from cottonwood buds. Turn rose petals into jam, pickle kelp, or flavor a syrup with spruce tips.

Plant Crafts

More Activities

ANIMAL MASKS

Copy animal faces to card stock then color and cut out a simple paper mask. Designed by Lena Amason.

ANIMAL MASK ACTIVITY
Woman standing behind a display of beaded headdresses

ANIMAL ORNAMENTS

Use our templates to cut, sew, and decorate felt ornaments in the shape of local animals. Designed by Sara Squartsoff.

ANIMAL ORNAMENT INSTRUCTIONS

COLORING

Color Alutiiq clothing, tools, animals, and landscapes with these coloring pages designed by Hanna Sholl.

COLORING ALUTIIQ  |  COLORING FISH

Illustration by Hanna Sholl.

DANCE BELT

Create a dance belt using beads and felt. Designed by Susan Malutin.

DANCE BELT  

DANGLE EARRINGS

Use beads and dentalium shells to make an elegant pair of earrings. Designed by LaRita Laktonen Ward.

DANGLE EARRING INSTRUCTIONS

GREETINGS

Add these Alutiiq greetings to your cards and emails.

HOLIDAY GREETINGS  |  MOTHERS DAY  |  FATHERS DAY

GUT SKIN POUCH

Stitch a small pouch with hog intestine and embroidery thread. Designed by Susan Malutin.

GUT POUCH SEWING

HEADDRESSES

Use a paper template, string, and beads to make an Alutiiq headdress for a child or a doll. Designed by Kayla McDermott.

CHILD’S HEADDRESS INSTRUCTIONS  |  DOLL HEADDRESS INSTRUCTIONS

HUNTING HAT ORNAMENTS

Foam, beads, wire, and markers can be transformed into miniature hunting hats. Designed by Sara Squartsoff.

HUNTING HAT ORNAMENTS INSTRUCTIONS

PAPER MASKS

Create full-sized, three-dimensional Alutiiq-style masks with paper.  Designed by Heather Ridgeway for the Juneau School District.

PAPER MASK INSTRUCTIONS

PARKAS

Make an Alutiiq parka for a doll or create a parka craft with felt and pipe cleaners. Designed by Hanna Sholl.

DOLL PARKA  |  PARKA CRAFT

PETROGLYPH ROCK PAINTING

Create your own rock art with paint, beach pebbles, and some Kodiak rock art images. Designed by Sara Squartsoff.

PETROGLYPH ROCK PAINTING INSTRUCTIONS

TEA

Host a tea party with Alutiiq tea and Russian tea.

TEA RECIPES

WOVEN CIRCLE

Learn basic weaving techniques with this activity that makes a small woven circle. Designed by Mariah Stapleton.

WEAVING INSTRUCTIONS

YARNICA OIL

Infuse oil with yarrow and arnica to make a healing oil. Designed by Gayla Pedersen.

OIL INSTRUCTIONS

Pililita! — Let’s Create

AN ALUTIIQ/SUGPIAQ ACTIVITY BOOK

Want to keep exploring?  Our activity book is packed full of coloring pages, puzzles, crafts, games and recipes inspired by Kodiak’s Native culture. Send a message with pictographs, play Alutiiq Word games, make paper dolls, create a tea party, and much more. Designed especially for youth ages 8 to 12.

Watch for an activity from this book each month.

Downloadable Activity Pages
Pililita! — Let’s Create