In this Valentine's Day worksheet, students color, cut, fold and paste a picture to make a pop-up card for Valentine's Day. Teachers are also given a brief history of the holiday and the tradition of sending valentines.

Third graders make an accordion-fold book, review the vocabulary of visual art and are introduced to calligraphy. They plan a story using a sequence of words and sentences.

Students listen to a reading of "Clifford the Firehouse Dog," and develop a list of fire safety rules. Using different colored construction paper, they create facsimile "Clifford shape books," and illustrate safety rules in them.

Pupils study fractions. In this art lesson, students fold paper, use origami, making new shapes and discuss the area of the shapes created.

Students explore the story of Sadako, a young girl, who had leukemia as a result of a bomb being dropped on Hiroshima in 1955. They create a chain of paper cranes and design a fund-raising event. They write poems in the Japanese style of...

In this line of symmetry worksheet, 2nd graders fold a paper in half and cut two parts of a picture to show the line of symmetry. They answer 4 questions in which they color a domino to make it symmetrical. 

Fourth graders participate in hands-on activities to introduce them to the concept of symmetry. They make a silly symmetrical picture out of their names after gluing them onto a larger sheet of construction paper. This is a really...

Students create birds using construction paper, pencils, scissors, glue, and heart shapes in this Art instructional activity for the elementary classroom. The instructional activity could be used for a Valentine's Day activity or for a...

Students practice their arts and crafts by creating Christmas projects.  In this holiday lesson, students utilize construction paper, glue and scissors to create a 2-D image of a snowman.  Students create 2 more snowmen and...

Fourth graders locate decimals on a number line. They use number sense and estimation skills with decimals. Students are introduced to percents. They look at fractions on a number line. Students fold a piece of paper to find halves,...

Students explore the unique qualities of themselves and others. In this character education lesson, students read the book A Unicorn Named Beulah Mae and create a paper star displaying their unique personality traits.

Students cut intricate symmetrical shapes on the fold. Also, they identify positive and negative shapes and warm, cool and neutral colors. Finally, they glue shapes to create a pleasing design.

Students examine amino acids and discuss the properties of side chains.  In this proteins instructional activity students demonstrate the foldings of peptides.

Pupils create "love bug bags" using pink pipe cleaners, construction paper, glue, glitter or sand, and a lunch sack in this Art lesson for the early-elementary classroom. This can be used in the Springtime or as a Valentine's Day project.

First graders explore fractions with manipulatives. In this fraction instructional activity, 1st graders use paper foods such as sandwiches and pizza in order to find halves, thirds, fourths, eighths, and more. This instructional...

Students will create and predict patterns formed when making paper snowflakes. Students will construct snowflakes understanding that patterns may be predicted based on observation.

Teacher prepares four layers of Plasticine stacking layers on top of each other to create a model of how rocks within the earth can be folded creating anticlines and synclines below the surface and mountains and valleys on the surface.

Students explore the different ways language is used in conceptual art. In this conceptual art instructional activity, students analyze artworks that emphasize ideas over form and the methods used in conceptual art. Students work in...

Students explore Chinese New Year. In this Chinese culture instructional activity, students read associated literature and use worksheets to explore aspects of the Chinese New Year. Students complete this instructional activity by making...

Students build a haunted house out of a paper bag, and decorate it with shapes cut out of construction paper. They attach their address to the bag to aid in memorizing this important information.

Students are read a book about haunted houses and dracula. They decorate a paper bag as they choose using shapes and ghosts. They practice stating their address and may take their house home when they have said it correctly.

Students create various design drawings using parallel, oblique, and divergent lines and the medium of black paper and colored gel pens.

Students listen to the story of "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes." They discuss the events of Hiroshima, effects of the bombing, and methods people can make a difference in achieving peace in the world. Students use orgami paper and...

Students select a method of presenting on a given topic by rolling paper dice which have various presentation methods on them. They produce the activity and share it with the class.