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Flower Painting/Printmaking

For Teachers K - 2nd
Using old or donated flowers, little learners create flower prints. They discuss the colors found in nature, paint a background, and then create flowers for their pictures by dipping and pressing real flowers onto their paper. 
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Pass the Painting

For Teachers K - 2nd
After reading a story or informational text describing an animal, your class gets creative and collaborative with paint. In groups, they brainstorm all the parts of an animal, they then take turns painting those parts. One child starts...
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Heart Mobiles

For Teachers K - 6th
A variation on classic Valentine's Day lessons that is sure to please, your elementary class construct heart mobiles using construction paper, string or yarn, hole punchers, foil, and pencils.
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Virtue Or Vice?

For Teachers K - 12th
Students create triptychs, pictures in three panels side by side, of certain themes displayed in the painting "Don Quixote" by Jean-Baptiste Camile Carot. Student evaluations are accomplished through participation during in-class...
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Shape In Dance

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners engage in a lesson that is about the concept of shapes. They practice moves that are used to illustrate different types of shapes. Students participate in body movements that are focused around the directions of the body like...
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-Dancing With the Indians

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners read Dancing With the Indians by Angela Shelf Medearis. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding the study of Native American festivals and traditions. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing,...
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Line: a Geometric Exercise

For Teachers K - 12th
Pupils study the different types of lines and create a drawing demonstrating what they learned.
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Finding the Animals: A Visual Exploration of Art

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars participate in a thirty-second look, followed by a class discussion about Jan Brueghel's painting The Entry of the Animals into Noah's Ark. They use description words and sentences to write about their favorite animal in...
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Numbers In Art

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students learn to identify numbers and to group objects in sets. The genre of artwork is used as a way of engaging students to develop this number skill. The creative project of making one's own hyperstudio card is made and this is where...
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Camera Investigations

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students listen to a read aloud, participate in word work and work with video clips at a website. They make a zoetrope to demonstrate animation.
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Exploring the Continents Through the Arts

For Teachers K
Students examine the continents and explore geographic components in the fifteen lessons of this unit. The location of the continents, the equator, the four major oceans, and the music, food, literature, dance, and drama from each of the...
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Which Butterfly Is Different?

For Students Pre-K - K
In this butterfly visual discrimination worksheet, students analyze 5 rows of butterfly pictures, each with three pictures. Students determine which butterfly in each row is different from the others and circle it.
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Flying Cup Kites

For Teachers K
Students are introduced to the kite book and they discuss the cultural background of kites. They are shown slides and overheads of different examples. The teacher models the project and then students attempt to make their own.
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Alexander Calder: Animal Mobiles

For Teachers K - 6th
Students are introduced to the life and art of Alexander Calder. Students define the vocabulary related to this work and then design and construct an abstract paper animal mobile.
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Tallest and Shortest

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Students look at 3 rows of objects, circle the shortest object in each row and then draw an X on the tallest object in each row. This worksheet provides good practice for an important visual skill.
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Which Does Not Belong?

For Students Pre-K - K
In this visual picture that does not belong worksheet, students observe several pictures of people and one picture of a dog to determine which picture does not belong. Students circle one picture.
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A Look at Life of the Plains Indians through artists like George Catlin

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students identify and interpret the life of the Indians on the Plains during the 1800's through artworks of George Catlin and others during this time period. Students examine life of the Pawnee Indians and interpret conditions that...
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Apple Painting

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students use apples and apple cut outs to create art projects. In this art lesson, students cut paper into apple shapes or cut apples into shapes, dip in paint, and use them to stamp.
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Fireworks In The Sky

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create a unique spin art painting. In this creative art lesson, students use a salad spinner, paint, and black construction paper to create a spin art project. Students turn the spinner and sprinkle glitter onto the paint.
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It's a Bug's Life - Crayon Resist

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students reate an original crayon resist painting of a bugs life. They Choose 1 or more bugs to draw in composition and simplify objects into simple shapes, forms, and patterns students draw objects with spontaneity and imagination.
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Clothespin Magnets

For Teachers K - 6th
Students decorate letter, clothespin magnets using basic art supplies in this Art lesson for the elementary classroom. Teacher preparation should include cutting out letter shapes for each student and connecting clothespins prior to the...
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Sun Catching Eggs

For Teachers K - 2nd
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.
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Color Mix Up

For Students K - 1st
In this art worksheet, students use the template of shapes and paint the colors as directed with water colors. Students allow the paints to dry before applying the second overlapping color. This worksheet is geared to the adults who will...
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Confetti Eggs

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students create a confetti filled egg. In this art lesson students use multiple steps to decorate and fill an egg. The result is an egg that has been hollowed, filled with confetti, and has a decorated shell. The students break them open...

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