Books and Media - Art Education and Instruction Books

Robert Henkes book offers a bountiful supply of inexpensive, short-term projects for junior and senior high art. This book is illustrated with many examples of good student work. A real boost to everyone who teaches art — substitutes, too!

Art teachers receive practical advice and ready-to-use tools for implementing an effective K–8 art education program. The guide provides 125 black and white illustrated art projects with reproducible student handouts in a variety of creative media.

Kids in grades K-8 can embark on over 200 artistic adventures into the world of paints, pastels, ethnic and recycled art, and much more. This book opens a diverse world of artistic expression and varied media.

Award-winning artist and former family programs coordinator at the NYC Museum of Modern Art, author Joyce Raimondo, teaches children grades 1–5 how to use art as a springboard for their own self-expression.

These beautifully illustrated books make art history lessons come alive with engaging and fun hands-on activities. They illustrate how each artist gained inspiration and expressed their innermost feelings, as well as provide a source of joy and fun.

This is a terrific series of books for the art educator. Hundreds of projects for grades four through adult provide exciting ways to develop art skills, from drawing to painting, prints, and collage.

Easy-to-use strategies and lesson plans help teachers integrate art into their general curriculum for all grade levels. Long-time art educator, author Eileen Prince presents effective methods for using the visual arts to inspire.

Introduces the basic art mediums with easy explanations, tips, techniques, and use of art tools, for teaching art to children ages 5–10. Emphasizes importance of letting children work with basic mediums repeatedly. Nancy Beal.

This book is an exciting way to teach art history and art appreciation, and to increase skills in grades 3-9. It combines 40 full color museum slides with 94 ready-to-use activities, which include background information, style, technique, and directions.

The Art Teacher’s Book of Lists is a unique information source and timesaver for art teachers of all levels. It includes over 270 illustrated lists for developing instructional materials and planning lessons for elementary, middle and high school students

This remarkable book sends children on a search for tiny details hidden in some of the world's most celebrated works of art, including the tombs of ancient Egypt, the mosaics of the Roman Empire and the frescoes of Renaissance Italy.

This beautiful set from professional artist and writer Betsy Dillard Stroud offers hundreds of ways to access and be inspired by your creative muse.

These indispensable manuals, written for experienced amateurs and advanced art students, explore the various materials, techniques, and tools specific to each of the different media in the series. Hardcover. 144 pages. 8½" × 11" (19 cm × 28 cm).

Written for dedicated amateurs, but helpful to professional artits, this is great for studio and classroom use. Hidden spiral binding keeps pages lying flat, so you can work freely with art materials. Technique instruction, more than 400 illustrations.

Respected artists offer insight into more than 60 art-related jobs for any student considering making art a career. This invaluable book gives excellent guidance and has an extensive resource guide and outline of courses offered at universities.

Prepare children to discover the excitement of painting, and prepare yourself to expect the unexpected. Step-by-step instruction and fine art and student examples assist you in helping children develop visual awareness.

These guides each include 24 standards-based lessons for classroom and art teachers in grades K–6. They allow students to explore the topics in depth. Each lesson is in a full four-page spread that is complete, comprehensive, organized, and time-saving.

Endorsed by the U.S. Dept of Education, these award-winning teachers’ guides include standards-based lessons for teachers grades K–6. Dream Makers Guides are illustrated with children’s artwork, and contain complete instructions for hands-on projects.

Art Sherwyn teaches key concepts in art and design through an engaging coloring book format; he introduces art vocabulary and ideas. Concepts covered are: the elements of design; composition; topics in art history; drawing and coloring techniques.

Engage your students in the creative process with dynamic art projects from Crystal Productions! These projects were created for elementary school children to build confidence, self-esteem and to facilitate their creation of artwork. Over 200 colo

This book is intended for young artists (ages 4 to 12) who want to experience and enjoy painting, sculpture, drawing, and building works of art to follow the styles of the great masters, such as Van Gogh, Michelangelo, or Rembrandt.

A collection of beginning drawing lessons and text for practicing handwriting. Developed by a teacher who saw her second grade students becoming increasingly frustrated with their drawing efforts and disenchanted with repetitive handwriting drills.

Former art teacher Doug Dubosque presents fun, easy-to-follow instructions and plenty of examples for learning to draw. This series follows several different approaches to drawing, all to help you succeed no matter what your level or experience.

Drawing and Painting Activities, a collection of lesson plans subtitled Using Masterworks as Inspiration, provides 30 activities that will inspire students in grades K–8 to enjoy art history.

By Art Sherwyn. Key concepts of drawing, composing, and creating with line are taught in a fun format. This workbook jump-starts the creative process while introducing fundamental art vocabulary and ideas.

There are 100 drawing activities with complete instructions along with 195 helpful illustrations. This book combines studio work with art theory, history, and appreciation. For students in grades 8–12. Author—Lucy Davidson Rosenfeld. Paperback. 190 pages.

A full-color illustrated introduction to the lives and art of major artists developed especially for young students. Each DVD and companion book analyzes the reproductions of key master works, and children learn new ways to observe and think about art.

Created to address the needs and interests of today's adolescents, this is an exciting new resource for secondary teachers. With more than 30 studio experiences using clearly defined visual problems so that students will experience personal expression.

With its emphasis on visual problem solving, creative thinking, and cooperative projects, this book offers art teachers an opportunity to incorporate a variety of stimulating and meaningful new studio experiences into the curriculum.

Here's a convenient, enjoyable, educationally sound way for you to meet Discipline-Based Art Education standards. This collection of 24 games covers art history, criticism, aesthetics, and art production.

Great Studio Projects In Art History includes 80 multicultural art projects to help students trace art history from 30,000 B.C. through the late 20th century using low-cost materials and easy-to-follow directions. For grades 7–12.

Now children can make exciting discoveries about their world while creating art. Each activity book couples high-interest topics with lower-level reading. Each one is loaded with historic and cultural crafts, games, cooking, and more.

Hooked on Art 205 ready-to-use classroom activities in seven creative areas,including crayons, paper, tissue, tempera, and watercolor. It will keep students absorbed year-round in the world of color and design.

Volumes focus on familiar subjects and show ways great artists perceive and express subjects. Introduce basic artistic concepts, styles, and techniques, and with loads of fun. (Colleen Carroll). Hardcover, 48 pages.

This reproducible book written by Charles W. Comstock is for all teachers, grades 6-12. All the practical information you need for organizing your classroom and eliminating problems is in this book.

Here are lots of ways to help kids learn by doing. They can be creative with paper and paste, clay and dough, plus printmaking and sculpture. Make dozens of projects — from pinwheels and butterfly puppets to balloon dinosaurs and stuffed whales!

The book's ten chapters are as diverse as the artists and their art — covering such topics as opening your eyes to inspiration, work spaces and work habits, and your finished work's place in the world.

Teachers appreciate being able to copy illustrations from Dover coloring books on office copiers for classroom use. These images may be copied without permission or fee. Students can create their own versions of artists' masterpieces.

The American Library Association Booklist writes about MaryAnn Kohl's book, "Preschoolers, art teachers, adventurous parents and most anyone who likes to play in mud, peanut butter playdough, paper-mache and similar media will be ecstatic over this book.

Youngsters 5 and up will learn basic art techniques and use them to produce fabulous finished pieces. This series gently takes youngsters beyond what they know — on the left page are how-tos, on the right page is the finished piece. By Jennifer Lipsey.

This book contains exercises that are designed to be self-teaching, allowing middle school or older students to learn to "read" works of art and discover the meaning of style, the significance of content, and different elements that make up a work of art.

Bring art to life with lessons that showcase the successes and struggles of artists. Build an appreciation for major artists and movements, up to present day. Includes new biographies and includes a full color art highlight insert. Phyllis Clausen Barker

This wonderful book contains more than 100 hands-on art ideas for kids to enhance the enjoyment of their favorite children's books. Fun and easy art projects in Storybook Art will encourage children to read and re-read their favorite books.

Marcy Uphoff Effinger has created a complete art curriculum for grades K-8 that requires no special training. The projects involved stimulate creative thinking, imagination, and spark students' interest. Both books are spiral-bound. 8-1/2" x 11"

Tessellations are designs featuring animals, birds, or inanimate objects, which fill a space, without overlapping, to form a pattern. This book provides clearly illustrated demonstrations about how to create them.

Art history with a twist! Here’s a fun way to introduce young children to great works of art. Each durable board book in the series gives kids the chance to lift, tug, and snap their way through art history. Ages 3–6.

This lively book explains how colors are related and which ones work well together. Hands-on projects help readers recognize appropriate color choices.

The books in this series have helped many students expand their creativity, overcome technical obstacles, and explore new media. Each book focuses on the materials and methods of a specific medium, and provides step-by-step demonstrations, helpful tip

You Can Weave! provides an illustrated sequence ofstep-by-step projects that build a foundation of weaving knowledge and skills. The projects rely on supplies that are readily available, such as paper, yarn ribbon, string, rags, and beads.