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Zany Wire Sculpture

For Teachers K - 8th
Young artists create a freestanding 3-dimensional sculpture using wire and modeled "clay" pieces. This immensely creative and engaging lesson should get your kids excited, because the medium is unusual to work with. Everything you need...
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Flexible "Glass" Sculpture

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Older artists create 2-dimensional surfaces with paint, then use these paintings as the components of a 3-dimensional sculpture. They assemble a free-standing sculpture that may be viewed from any angle by using wire to create the shape....
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Virtual Art Student: Sculpture

For Teachers 5th - 12th
This is a big project, but lucky for you, the materials, steps, and additional notes are at-the-ready to make it a classroom possibility. Your class will sculpt a life-sized artist using steel brackets, plywood, chicken wire, and...
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SCRAP WOOD SCULPTURE

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students see that there are many shapes and objects that can be created from other shapes and objects, and create a sculpture using bits and pieces of scrap wood. Includes instructions on how to make Tempera wood stain
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Drawing with Wire

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students identify visual arts by examining visual models. In this art analysis lesson, students discuss the history of Keith Haring by researching information on the Internet. Students view images showing Keith Haring's work and then...
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Aztec Sun God Sculpture

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners create their own Sun God Sculptures. In this Aztec art instructional activity, students create their own Sun God Sculpture. After finishing the project sudents compare and contrast their sculpture to the pictures of the Aztec's...
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Floor Sculptures

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore visual arts by completing a recycling activity. In this botany science lesson, students examine the natural layout of plants in a garden environment. Students utilize wire, wood and other arts and craft materials to...
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Old Fisherman

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Sculpting is a lot of fun and it stimulates multiple senses at once. Learners observe and then create a fisherman (or any person) out of paper clay. They mold and sculpt their clay until they have shaped a person. They then paint and...
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PLASTER AND WIRE MOBILE/SCULPTURE

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create plaster and wire mobiles/sculptures.
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Dolls Around the World - Figurative Sculpture

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students examine different cultures while making doll sculptures. Using tinfoil, they make the doll, paint them and give them hair and props related to that specific culture. They also compare and contrast different dolls as they...
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Tin Can Sculpture

For Teachers K - 12th
Students create art from recycled materials. In this visual arts lesson plan, students follow the provided steps to create their own tin can artwork.
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Wire and Pantyhose Sculptures

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students produce a sculpture made from wire and panythose.
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Montana Animal stacks

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students view Ode to Chief Seattle and create an animal sculpture.  For this art lesson, students choose a variety of materials for creating an animal sculpture using flora and fauna and other environmental images.  Students discuss the...
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Flat Shapes in Three Dimension

For Teachers 3rd - Higher Ed
Students explore sculpture. In this lesson about finding sculpture ideas in movement and rhythm, students make 3-dimensional shapes. Students create a sculpture paying attention to balance, rhythm and repetition. Students will understand...
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Sculpting

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students use clay, molding, and cardboard to create a sculpture of a bird and a bird house. Students complete 5 steps to making this sculpture.
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Flat Shapes in Three Dimensions

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students examine the 20th-century sculpture "Gandydancer's Dream" by Mark di Suvero. In this visual arts lesson, students examine the sculpture and then use flat shapes and wire to create their own sculpture. The students are encouraged...
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Shape Shifters- Trees and the Environment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students make a tree sculpture. In this trees and the environment lesson, students learn about the parts of a tree, discuss what a tree needs in order to grow, find images of trees in art and nature, use various materials to create a...
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Shoe Shine

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Young artists use Paintstik colors on paper, canvas, metal, fabric or another surface to create a work of art to be presented in a gallery. Students research the origins of the "Snakebasket" they are creating. These art lessons produce...
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Calder's Balancing Acts

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students learn the vocabulary of contemporary sculpture and distinguish between abstract and realistic sculpture, mobile and stabile, biomorphic and geometric. They write equations using Calder's mobiles
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Art & Culture Influence Each Other

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners compare and contrast the effects of culture upon the community and visa versa. In groups, students create Chumash style artwork and proportioned sculptures. They examine the perspective of the Renaissance Period and design...
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Create a Cat with Amaco Scuptamold and Wireform Metal Mesh

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create an animal from Sculptamold and metal mesh. In this hands-on arts lesson, students use the materials provided the create a piece of art in the form of an animal. This lesson includes easy step-by-step directions.
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Barns and Silos

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students build a barn or silo out of clay. In this sculpting lesson, students plan and design a barn or silo and follow step-by-step directions in order to create their finished product out of clay.
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Sounds Great

For Teachers K - 6th
Students examine the types of sounds sculptures make. They create their own sculpture that make sound using everyday materials.
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Textured Metal Boxes

For Teachers K - 12th
Discuss the art process called repousse with this lesson. Learners discuss the history of this artistic method, talk about the technique, and create their own examples. They use boxwood tools, paper mache boxes, and sandpaper to create...

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