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Navajo Sand Paintings
Research the use of sand paintings in the Navajo tribe. Your young scholars work together to design their own sand painting. They share their creation with the class describing what the symbols mean.
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Tibetan Monk Sand Paintings
Students complete an art project. In this sand paintings lesson, students learn about the history of mandalas and then create a sand painting of their own. Extensions include writing a story or poem about their sand painting, study of...
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Sand Painting Mural
Third graders design and create classroom sand painting mural which is comprised of individually designed pieces.
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Glass Jar Sand Art: Inspired by Navajo Sand Painting
Sand has been used as an artistic medium for centuries and can be found in cultures across the globe. The class examines sand art created by the Navajo people. They mix tempera paint and sand to create their colors, and then fill jars,...
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Sand Painting
Pupils design and create Navajo Sand Paintings using sand, powdered tempera paints, and basic art supplies in this Art lesson plan for elementary classrooms. The history behind sand paintings can be included with this lesson plan for a...
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Sand Crabs
Students identify shapes to create sand crabs, and make colored sand for texture.
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Sand Painting
Students explore Navajo traditions and art. In this sand painting lesson, students discuss Navajo rituals and traditions prior to designing a sand painting that is representative of the Navajo ideal of the hozho.
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Sand Painted Teepees
Second graders create "Sand Painted teepees" using sand, paper, glue, and information about Native American culture in this 2nd grade Art lesson. The lesson includes a vocabulary list, a materials list, a resource link, and a short...
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Clay Sand Castles
You can start off this sand castle art project by previewing the included architectural vocabulary. Learners explore images, the web, and books that show both sand castles and architectural design. They then get creative and make their...
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Painting with Dots - Kirkland Style
Pointillism is the focus of a lesson that asks young artists to compare Vance Kirkland's painting style with aboriginal dot art, and then to produce their own piece of dot art.
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China: Dim Sum: Sand Painting: Mandalas Lesson
Students discover the art form of mandalas and create their own sand paintings. In the process, students explore the history of this art form in Tibetan culture.
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Bas Relief Paintings
Budding artists are introduced to a new medium for Bas Relief sculpture: block printing linoleum. They design and sculpt a dimensional piece of artwork, creating a variety of textures, lines and depths. This engaging lesson plan should...
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Colored Sand Art
Students trace images on paper with glue and then sprinkle on colored sand they have made to create sand art pictures.
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Glass Jar Sand Painting
Students make their own colored sand out of salt or sand and tempera paint. They create sand art in recycled babyfood jars, by arranging layers of the different colored sand. They also decorate the jars.
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Native American Sand Painting
Children write Navajo journals pretending to be a Native American for four days. Student then begin their art project. After lightly penciling in their sketch of the land and environment of the Navajo, the students receive brown...
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Tempera Paint Lesson Ideas
Students create an abstract, non-objective paintings. Students use the various lesson plans to create abstract paintings that include an art with text lesson, a sand textured paint lesson, and a radiating design lesson.
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Sand Art Creation
Students create a model of a geological land-form. In this art lesson, students will create a model of a land-form using sand.
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Egg Tempera Painting In The Renaissance
Young scholars explore the development of paint and paintings during the Renaissance. In a science lab, they reproduce the properties of egg in tempera paint and compare and contrast egg tempera paintings to oil paintings. Through...
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Sandpainting
Students investigate different forms of art native to Navajo Indians. In this art history lesson, students observe authentic sand paintings created by Native Americans hundred of years ago. Students create their own sand paintings...
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Painted Chairs
Students evaluate visual arts by creating furniture designs. In this three dimensional art lesson, students utilize the web to examine different artist renderings of furniture, sculpture and architecture. Students utilize paint to create...
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Lascaux Cave Art on Ceramic Stones
Here is a great way to incorporate art into your next unit on prehistoric people. The class makes stones out of ceramic clay and then creates paintings like those found in the Lascaux Caves in France. A video link, full day-by-day...
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Artwork of World Cultures
Seventh graders research a culture and art produced by the people of that culture. They create a PowerPoint presentation to explain their findings. Students make a sand painting depicting the art of that era.
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Sculpted, Painted Balsa-Foam African Masks
Students create an African mask. In this African art lesson, students use Balsa-Foam and acrylic paints to construct an African mask. Students carve out the facial features and seal it with a coat of Gesso.