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3D Contour Collage
Students create a dimensional "line drawing" out of flexible wire then cover it with assorted papers and tissues for a whimsical, lightweight sculpture.
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5-12
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3 Prisms
Math and science create visual forms and structure. This sculpture uses equilateral triangles and
parallelograms that are combined and repeated.
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K-8
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100 Spirits
This project memorializes heroes and ancestors in fabric. The disciplines of music and dance combine with the visual arts to produce plays and theatrical presentations of the spirit.
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5-12
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African Embossed Leather Box
Creates African-inspired art by covering paper-maché boxes with Leather Bookcloth. Emboss with patterns and textures and add colorful beads by gluing or stitching.
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5-12
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Aloha Shirts
Create Hawaiian-inspired shirts with brightly-colored flowers, leaves, and fish by printing them using fabric paints. "Gyotaku" - the Japanese word for "fish print"- is a fun and exciting way to give shirts an island beach look.
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3-12
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Animal Masks
From Mayco Colors, this lesson gives students the opportunity to explore the history and function of masks in various cultures and times. Students will be able to learn and master basic hand building and sculpting techniques using either self-hardening clay or clay requiring kiln firing.
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K-6
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Art Vision Goggles
When looking at art visuals, on museum field trips or just when a different perspective is needed, kids can put on these special spectacles to see "through the eyes of an artist" to understand the vision and purpose behind a work of art.
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K-4
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Artist's Canvas Painted Shoes
Using Tee Juice® Fabric Markers, students design a pair of painted shoes reminiscent of a famous artist's style and choices of subjects and colors.
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K-8
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"Art-Zee!" Dice Game
Decorate small wooden blocks with symbols, letters, numbers, patterns or images to create dice and a colorful "shaker" jar. Scorecard included in lesson plan.
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K-6
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A.T.C. (Artist Trading Cards)
Artist Trading Cards are a fascinating pastime for a great number of professional artists. The cards are always 2½" × 3½", a size that fits into standard baseball card storage sleeves.
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K-6
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Bead Bottles
Bead bottles are the result of studying Huichol beaded gourds. Their technique can be applied to 3D objects available to students. Hours and hours of dedication are involved in the small bottle art.
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5-12
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Beyond Beads
Beads can be made from a variety of materials, including Wonderfoam, chenille stems and Woodsies.
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K-5
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Bling Bling Mosaics
The new metallic paints are beautiful. Mix with different types of paints and "Glitter It" mediums to make paper tiles.
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K-5
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Cable Sculpture
Using the example of a suspension bridge, students plan and create a sculpture focused on balance, stability and strength. Foamboard with colorful wire provides a blending of aesthetics and function.
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9-12
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Carnival Scratch Masks
Explore the history of carnival masks in various cultures, such as Mardi Gras in New Orleans, the Carnival of Venice and "Commedia Dell'arte" in Italy. Ornate and colorful masks are easy to create with Scratch-Art® Clear-Scratch™ film and permanent Sharpie® markers.
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K-8
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Cone Icons
Using the example of a suspension bridge, students plan and create a sculpture focused on balance, stability and strength. Foamboard with colorful wire provides a blending of aesthetics and function.
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9-12
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Donkey Beads and Bells
Combining clay beadmaking with basic pinch and coil pot construction, students make a musical piece of art.
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K-5
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Drawing with Yarn
"Drawing with Yarn" is an interpretation of work by Wassily Kandinski in 1913. Kandinski is called the first totally abstract artist. Free flowing water color and line suggests but does not define images.
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K-8
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Drop Ring Glass Slumping
Students learn drop ring firing, an advanced technique that produces an endless array of dramatic shapes and effects.
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9-12
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Easy, Breezy "Screen Printing"
Screenprints (also called "serigraphs") are greatly simplified with Scratch-A-Print and water-based paint. Multiple prints can be made on mini-size canvas, then made into ornaments, pendants, gift tags, etc.
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3-8
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Easy Fabric Batik with Glue
Explore the beauty of fabric batik without the danger of hot wax or dyes. Simply trace a design onto muslin with washable glue and add brilliant color.
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3-8
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Environmental House
One of the principles of the Modern style of architecture is that the materials and functional requirements determine the design of the structure. Keeping that in mind, students will build a model of a home to function within a chosen environment.
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7-12
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Expanded Images
This drawing project gives creativity a nudge by having children select a photo to start the drawing and then expanding it with related subject matter drawn all around it.
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K-3
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Fabric Paint Hanging
Although it is commonly used as a decorative medium for clothing, fabric paint is also used as a fine art medium.
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K-6
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Faux Stained Glass Lanterns
Examples of intricately-designed stained glass can be found around the world: from gothic and medieval cathedral glass, to the art of Louis Tiffany and John La Farge. This project creates the look of stained glass in a simple process using Scratch-Art® Clear-Scratch™ film and permanent Sharpie® markers.
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K-8
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Fingerprint Beads
Certain people influence our lives in such a way that they leave "fingerprints" behind. These simple beads make great friendship bracelets.
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K-12
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Flower Children
Every child is a flower! Their self portraits are fun and make a beautiful garden in the classroom. Oil pastels and wiggly eyes brighten the flowers.
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K-6
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Foam Punch
Punched tin and metal is an old, traditional craft that involves creating holes in metal with sharp tools to form a design. Original designs were abstract patterns. This safe and colorful version is also abstract.
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K-6
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Gelly Bowls
Dimensional collage using wire mesh and acrylic gel medium. Develop color, texture and design with paint, photocopies, images, music, text, colorful papers and many different objects inside the transaprent gel. Once dry, the form can be easily manipulated into a bowl.
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5-12
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Glass Fossils
One means by which fossils are formed is "carbonization". Over time, compression and heat remove the elements from plants and leave a detailed carbon impression behind. Glass fusion can demonstrate this process in just a few hours.
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5-12
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Inuit Bear Carving
The single most represented subject in North American Arctic art and legend is the polar bear. Easy-to-carve foam can be used to resemble soapstone sculptures.
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3-8
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Labyrinths
Found in art and architecture around the world, labyrinths are associated with metaphor, mystery and mythology. Incorporating various materials, students create their own labyrinths that may also be used as a simple game.
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1-6
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Letters + Numbers = ART
A painted book in the style of Robert Indiana. This lesson plan challenges students to choose eight ideas that can be stated with one simple word, then assemble them into a painted book.
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5-12
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Masterpiece Magnetic Puzzles
Create classroom fun with magnetic puzzles, a great exercise for classroom art history discussions. Each student can take home a masterpiece for their refrigerator.
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K-4
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Metal Foil Drawings
The experience of drawing on a lightweight foil is a wonderful exercise for young children and children with special needs.
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K-6
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Mini Monets
This project uses pastels – a favored medium of Impressionist artists – drawn onto matte surface Shrink Film. The chalk of
the pastels doesn't actually shrink, it simply condenses along with the film to form rich, intense areas of color.
NEW! Click here to see the Mini-Monet Lesson Plan Video
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3-8
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Minimalist Sculpture
In order to understand Minimal Art, students must recognize what is absent. These painted chipboard constructions are abstract with a minimum amount of color, value, shape and texture.
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5-12
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Native American Horse Mask
Many Plains Indian tribes created masks for their horses to give them a look of intimidating power and fierceness. Students create a horse-shaped mask that can be worn or hung for display.
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1-6
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Paper Maki-e
Maki-e translates "sprinkle pictures" – the beautiful art of Japanese lacquerware. To achieve a similar look, cut and glue painted papers to a surface and sprinkle with metallic powdered pigments.
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5-12
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Paper Sampler
Alphabet samplers were popular during the 19th century and were embroidered on linen or canvas. This lesson plan celebrates the unique qualities of paper available for artists with a version of the sampler made with paper and art techniques.
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5-12
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Pop Art Monoprints
This Lichtenstein-inspired lesson looks at pop culture imagery today and describes it in comic book-style prints using slow-drying waterbased Akua Kolor inks.
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7-12
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Recycled Pots
These plastic bottle pots are very handsome and perfectly shaped for decorating. Looking at them it is impossible to tell they are not made of clay. |
5-12
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Roylco Fans
Listed are colorful samples of simple fans. Discuss the importance of fans and how they were used to keep people comfortable for years.
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K-5
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Rubbings from Relief Sculpture
The rubbings in this lesson plan are made with images foound in cemeteries, embellished with patterns from texture plates. Plan the art activity as a field trip or as homework with parental guidance.
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K-6
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Sparkle Fish
This is a simple and tidy art project with a special surprise — what appears to be "ugly" black scales are revealed to be sparkly, holographic ones!
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K-3
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Tie Dye Guitar Shirt
This outrageously fun guitar design can be created in 1½ to 2 hours from start to the end of the dyeing process.
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7-12
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Yarn Bottles
The Huichol Indians used yarn to decorate gourds, clothing and other items. The yarn was applied in rows of varying colors and patterns. Bottles are a 3-D surface that offers endless design possibilities.
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3-6
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