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Paper Maracas
Students create paper maracas using basic art supplies, paper plates, beans, and decorative materials in this Art and Music lesson for the 1st and 2nd grades. The lesson includes resource links, a vocabulary list, and a short historical...
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Let's Draw
Students listen to the story "Art Lesson" by Tomie dePaola, and discuss the importance of reaching for their dreams. They then use an "I Can Draw" book to help aid their drawing. Finally, they use Kidspiration to list what they learned...
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Who Invented Crayons?
Pupils use a specified website to study the history of Crayola crayons. In groups, they discover who invented the colors, their cost, and who thought of the name. Students create a timeline of Crayola colors and choose one project from...
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Endangered Animal Coloring Page
In this endangered animal worksheet, students color a picture of a gray wolf. Students then draw and illustrate its natural habitat around it.
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Paint a Wet-Into-Wet Watercolor
Students demonstrate the technique of painting wet-into-wet. For this painting lesson, students create colors to paint with by mixing two or more colors together. Students use water color to create various images.
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Thank You!
Students demonstrate appreciation for volunteer workers. In this philanthropy lesson, students create a card, picture, or poem for a school volunteer. Students use a variety of art supplies to create the appreciation gift.
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April Showers Umbrella
Students create an April Showers Umbrella. In this art lesson, students use an umbrella cut out and tissure paper to make a colorful umbrella. Students glue the tissue paper to the umbrella, allow it to dry and use it for decoration.
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Dad's Day Message
Students use sidewalk chalk to write messages outside. In this art lesson, students use their imaginations to write and or draw items outside with sidewalk chalk.
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Creating a Shelter
First graders create a small usable shelter for a small animal or an insect. In this shelter lesson plan, 1st graders use popsicle sticks, tree twigs, bottles, and more to build a shelter in groups.
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Madeline coloring sheet
In this Madeline worksheet, students decorate the characters' room by coloring the walls, beds, and floor with markers or crayons.
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Clay Alphabet Sculpture Scenes
Students sculpt clay letters. For this Keith Haring art lesson, students view a video interview of the artist, design their own clay sculpture, and display during a class "gallery walk".
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Dancing With Props
Students move a prop by moving their bodies. They are encouraged to focus on balance, a variety of body movements, and making the prop central to their movements.
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Fishy Yarn Printing
Students use crayons and yarn to create an underwater scene while building fine motor skills.
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Photographic Links
Students in any grade level review photographs taken by Canadian artists. They complete different activties based on their age and practice looking at the world through a camera lens. They also complete self-portraits at the secondary...
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Lady Liberty
Students discussed symbolism, freedom and the Statue of Liberty. They explored Keith Haring's style. They used colored markers, color, and line to draw a Statue of Liberty.
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Heartfelt/Handmade Activities: Genre Painting
Students examine genre painting. They explore the Illinois State Museum website, identify how genre paintings were composed, analyze the activities of an Illinois farm in the 1850s, and create a genre painting of current everyday...
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Heartfelt/Handmade Activity: Hand-Molded Pottery
Learners view and discuss examples of pottery. They discuss how pottery has always been made by hand and use a ball of clay to roll and shape into a form of their choice.
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Thanksgiving Turkey Napkin Holder
Studens create turkey napkin holders. They discuss how Thanksgiving originated and why we celebrate this holiday. They create their napkin holders using craft sticks, glue guns, construction paper, feathers, and glitter.
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Andy Warhol Animals
Learners view and identify the colors on the color wheel. After viewing a PowerPoint, they discuss the reasons why animals become endangered. They examine the life and works of Andy Warhol and review contour drawing. To end the...
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The Peaceable Kingdom
Students examine the life and works of Edward Hicks. Using his "Peaceable Kingdoms, they create what they believe to be their own peaceable kingdom. They compare and contrast the two kingdoms and practice layering colors with colored...
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Torn Paper Teddy Bears
Students discuss different kinds of shapes with the teacher and the class. They identify ways that shapes can create pictures. Students create a teddy bear using torn paper. They identify their shapes by presenting their creations to...
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Easy Printmaking in the Classroom
Students use styrofoam and cardboard to create prints. Students choose a theme and create designs and pictures on styrofoam and cardboard. Students also use construction paper, cardboard cylinder sections to make their art.
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Q-tip Pointillism
Students discover artist Georges Seurat and his technique of Pointillism and create Pointillist examples using Q-Tips and watercolors in this exciting multi-level art lesson. This lesson can be adapted for various grade levels and...
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Sun Catching Eggs
Students create wax crayon "eggs" using wax paper, crayon shavings, and an egg template shape in this early-elementary Art lesson. Included with the lesson is an idea for diplaying finished art projects. A great lesson for Easter time.