Have you ever listened to a song that had a deeper political meaning to it? Every examined a work of art with layers of meaning? Pupils analyze the drawings of Arthur Szyk. They research the deeper meaning of several artistic cartoons...

Students receive bananas that are decorated like cartoon characters to have a fun and healthy snack. In this healthy snack lesson plan, students can create banana characters with permanent marker.

What if the Gingerbread Man was trying to catch you, rather than the other way around? Pupils can find out what happens by reading the story The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School by Laura Murray and enrich their experience with the...

Three activities stem from one hands-on project designed to explore character traits. Scholars create an action figure that reflects their personality to teach others about themselves and role play conversational skills.

Challenge your class with this fun and engaging engineering design project. The goal, to create a brand new cereal complete with a list of ingredients, a name and logo, and a box to hold it in. Starting with a survey to determine the...

You can print out a variety of your favorite cartoon characters and begin practicing creating your own animations.

Create your own world of crazy cartoon creatures. Illustrator Gary Harbo provides simple step-by-step instructions for drawing some unique characters. Each month a new character-drawing activity goes live on his website.

Behind some of your favorite Dr. Seuss characters are messages of social and political context. Explained here in detail are some examples of these types of works along with a biography.

Two cartoon characters hide in paintings found throughout the Walker Gallery. See if you can find them in each one.

This site shows children step-by-step how to draw many different "Cartoony," characters created by Fred Lasswell.

Lots of history of American music with fun links and audio clips, most from the 20th century. A neat site to learn more about America's past.

A highly entertaining Russian content site devoted to Winnie-the-Pooh. One of its best features is the Russian parallel translation of A.A. Milne's classic book by the famous Russian writer Boris Zakhoder. Also includes animation and...