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Cardboard Weaving
Fifth graders observe artworks of cardboard weaving for their art elements and principles of organization. In this cardboard weaving lesson, student create their own and compare artworks of the past and present. Students self evaluate...
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Photo/Mat Weaving
Students explore the art of mat weaving. In this tapestry instructional activity, students create maps with paper or photographs. Students understand age appropriate skills and technique of map weaving. Students learn the cultural...
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Cardboard Radial Weaving
Learners explore cultural history by participating in an arts and crafts activity. In this weaving lesson, students identify the many cultures that used weaving methods and local plant life to create baskets and other useful tools....
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Weaving Traditions - Activity 1
Learners practice the techniques of weaving and braiding in this introductory instructional activity on family traditions and visual art. The instructional activity includes a video and other resource links.
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Anasazi Basket Weaving
The Anasazi Indians of Mesa Verde are the focus of this art and social studies activity. Working in pairs or groups of three, pupils utilize computers and go online to search for websites about the Anasazi. Students will choose two or...
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Weave a Wreath
Students follow directions to complete a multi-step process that results in an attractive holiday decoration. In this Christmas art activity lesson, students employ simple measuring and weaving techniques and experiment with the negative...
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Navajo Weaving
Students explore the Navajo culture. For this Navajo Indians lesson, students gain information about their weaving and dancing. Students note the patterns in the weaving. Students create a dance that corresponds with the patterns they...
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Beginning Weaving on a Cardboard Loom
Students create examples of weaving techniques. They create a sampler that demonstrates tive different techniques. Students use colors, textures, and motifs with personal or cultural significance using a variety of materials.
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Weaving a Watercolor
Students examine the color wheel and work with watercolors. In this color instructional activity, students go over primary, secondary, and intermediate colors before watching a demonstration of watercolor brush techniques. They choose a...
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Exhibiting Common Threads
Artists working in different media often explore the same themes—to model how these same themes weave their way through different forms of artistic expression, scholars analyze images by Dorothea Lange, identifying key themes in her...
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Art of Japan - Textiles - Kimonos
Students examine and discuss the role of the Kimono in Japanese culture. They create Kimono Paper Weavings, Kimono Scratch Art, and Kimono Clay Sculptures.
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American Indian Art
Student complete a month-long unit on the symbolic and practical reasons for American Indian artwork. They explore websites, discuss elements of design, create an Indian backpack, Kachina Doll, weaving, sand painting, and totem pole.
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Kwanzaa Symbol Strips
Research the African family holiday of Kwanzaa and find the symbols for the seven principles of Kwanzaa. Learners analyze the symbols and how they may relate to their own lives. They then create an original art following the designs of...
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Paper Weaving
Students create an art project. In this paper weaving lesson plan, students discuss the skill and art of weaving and use construction paper to practice the weaving technique learned.
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Kente Straw Weavings
Fourth graders explore world culture by creating an arts and crafts project in class. In this weaving lesson, 4th graders identify the Kente culture and their uses for straw and other natural elements in their communities. Students...
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Basket Weaving
Students explore Native American culture. In this art lesson, students study Native American culture today and in the past as they weave baskets.
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Don't Stop the Weaving
The importance of oral tradition is evident throughout time and across space. Introduce your learners to some interesting stories and then test their knowledge with these questions. Ten multiple-choice questions focus on characters and...
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Shoe Shine
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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Tapestry in the Middle Ages
Young scholars study the use of tapestry in the daily lives of those living during the Middle Ages. They design and create a weaving of their own detailing artists' use of visual language and symbols throughout history. They write a...
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Basket Weaving
In this arts learning exercise, learners read about Lucy Parker Telles, a California Indian who, in the 1920s, became the best basket weaver in the valley. Students answer 5 questions about the reading and draw a design for their own...
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Weaving a Story
It's time to investigate patterns! First and second graders construct a paper weaving using a hundreds chart, then use the Ti-10 calculator to make patterns such as adding 3 each time. Learners remove multiples of three from the hundreds...
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Practicing Listening and Reading Closely: The Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address
Thanksgiving doesn't occur only once a year for the Haudenosaunee. Weave an instructional activity about reading closely with an inspiring message about eternal gratitude for all of the elements of creation into a unit on Native American...
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The Lady of Shalott Theme of Art and Culture
For this reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 4 short answer and essay questions based on themes of art and culture in "The Lady of Shalott." Students may also complete their choice of 3 reading activities suggested.
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The Fun Art of Pasta!
Interesting shapes make noodles and other pasta a creative medium for children’s art
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