When selecting tomahawk craft projects, keep in mind the age and capabilities of the children. Younger children will not have the dexterity to create as intricate a craft as older students. With younger children, focus on the tool aspects of the tomahawk in Native American culture. Older children will comprehend the dual nature of the weapon.
Download a picture of a tomahawk held by a Native American and give a copy to each child. Provide crayons, markers or paint for the children to color their pictures. Add feathers to the tomahawk and cotton for clouds. Punch holes around the edges and let the kids sew yarn, ribbon or shoelaces through the holes.
Start in the center of the top -- go around all of the sides -- and end up back on top. Create a loop with the extra yarn, ribbon or lace, to create a hanger for the finished creation.
You can also create a mural highlighting different aspects of Native American life. Include tomahawks among the tools used in the mural scenes.
Get the children involved in creating a bulletin board display of Native American life. Have them draw and color tomahawks from construction paper; then add their names and cut them out. These can be used as attendance markers. The children add their markers each day of class attendance. The tomahawks can also be used to indicate how many books on Native American life the children read. The children add their name and book title to a paper tomahawk and fasten it to the display.
For something more realistic, have the children draw, decorate and cut out only the head of the tomahawk. Cut dowels into 12-inch lengths for tomahawk handles. Use black electrician's tape to fasten the handles to the heads they created. You can also cut the heads from Styrofoam. Spray paint these heads gray. Cut a groove into the back of the Styrofoam head to fit the end of the handle. Hold them together with shoelaces wrapped around the tomahawk head and handle, much like the Native Americans did.