Learners use coffee filters, pipe cleaners and markers to create butterflies.

Students create a flower pot for their mom on mother's day. They use pictures found in magazines to create a collage on the flower pot. They are to follow instructions to complete this lesson.

Students create snow globes out of recycled coffee jars and other items.

Students use a brown paper bag to create their own paper trees. They rip the bag at the top to create the branches and then glue pieces of green tissue paper to make the leaves.

Young scholars create and decorate paper mache maracas.

Students create "tie-dye" easter eggs in this easy elementary school lesson plan. Materials needed include paper towels, food coloring, eggs, and rubber gloves. This Easter lesson plan can be accomplished in 30 minutes with extra time...

Students make Jack-O-Lanterns --- without the carving ---in this Halloween lesson ideal for the early-elementary classroom (including pre-Kindergarten). If computers are available the lesson can be adapted so that the students create...

Learners understand what complementary colors are. For this painting lesson, students review what happens when colors are mixed. Learners recognize that the colors oppose each other on the color wheel are complementary.  Students...

Students understand the meaning of a tradition and know how it is maintained. They have a general knowledge of the environment, history and culture of the Tlingit, Lakota, and Cherokee

Students study the Huichol Indians. In this Huichol lesson, students red The Journey of Tunuri and the Blue Deer, design a visual story using symbols, and make a painting using large paper shapes. A class mural project is also included.

Students investigate the history of dinosaurs, as real animals. In this dinosaur lesson plan, students examine basic concepts that help them understand the history of all life. Included in this article is information on the world of the...

Students explore mosaic techniques.

Students create various musical instruments out of everyday and recycled items.

Students use a book or passage for their inspiration to create a narrative collage. They need to illustrate the action or the setting.

Students explore world cultures through their puppetry. Your students explore puppets that are used in various cultures and create their own. The Internet experiences in this lesson are designed to be teacher-directed whole class...

Students study and perform Aesop's fables. In this Aesop's fables instructional activity, students read and/or listen to a number of the famous fables. They make masks based on the characters and perform a fable using the masks. They...

Students celebrate music for a month with a creative project.

Learners orally tell different types of stories using the assistance of props. For more advanced students, stories may be told according to a specific genre, or the story may have to include a given condition, setting, situation or theme.

Pupils become acquainted with Vincent Van Gogh and examine how pastels can be used to create a variety of lines and textural effects.

Students create a two, three, or four-dimensional collage or assemblage. They use shapes, colors, images, objects, and textures to create their collage.

Students make painted hand prints to cut out and use as fall leaves.

Students define value of an object. For this value lesson plan, students identify reasons for collecting objects, compile a personal inventory of items they find valuable, and then define why those items are valuable to them. In step...

Students draw conclusions about an mystery person based on documents and artifacts provided. In this drawing conclusions instructional activity, students become detectives by reading and analyzing evidence provided. This instructional...

Students participate in various activities that help them build esteem, and explore racism. In this multicultural lesson plan, Students increase their awareness of, and appreciation for, cultural differences and similarities. This...