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EXAMPLE
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TITLE AND DESCRIPTION
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GRADES
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Acrylic Mosaics
Students create stunning transparent, glass-like mosaic pieces with acrylic paint and polymer gloss medium.
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K-12
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Arti'Stick Mobile
Students will study works of stained glass as a one dimensional art form and adapt what they learn to a three dimensional sculpture — a brilliantly-colored transparent mobile.
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2-6
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Blick Liquid Watercolor
Students trace the contour of everyday classroom objects, overlapping them to form new shapes within the outlines.
This exercise strengthens students' skills in using positive and negative space and creating abstract designs based on shapes.
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K-5
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Burlap Figures
Based on the sculpture of Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz, students create a 3-dimensional figure study in fiber.
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7-12
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Burlap Weaving
The coarse, open weave of burlap substitutes for a weaving loom in this fiber art project.
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5-12
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Claymation Metamorphosis
An introduction to the basics of Claymation and media production using a familiar scientific theme — the metamorphasis of a butterfly.
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5-12
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Coil-Built Pueblo Bowl
Students explore Native American pottery traditions and discover the purpose behind the animal imagery and geometric patterns
used to decorate various pottery forms. Students with kiln access will learn how to use underglazes and glazes to transform their
bowls into functional ware.
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3-8
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Corrugated Paper
Young people are encouraged to be aware of their surroundings and find squares, rectangles, rounds and the hardest triangles in everyday materials.
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K-5
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Curiousity Collage
Found objects, cutouts, photos and a variety of materials are assembled
in a sculptural, three-dimensional collage centered around a personal theme.
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5-12
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Deep Silver
This lesson plan uses interactive floating layers and windows to create depth within the artwork.
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3-12
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Egyptian Fan
Ancient Egyptians applied gold leaf onto carved wood panels to tell stories and create opulence and on everyday objects. Follow the process these artists used to carve and gild a fan fit for King Tutankhamen.
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5-12
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Embossed Rose
Window Designs
Students will understand how geometry principles including diameter, radius, and symmetry work together to make an artistic design.
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5-12
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Family Tree
Children have many family members and pets
and friends who are "honorary" family. Have
students discuss their family and describe how
they look.
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K-4
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Fan Club for Artists
This project is a unique, fun lesson in establishing a hero and developing an Artists' Hall of Fame.
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9-12
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Flexible "Glass" Sculpture
This lesson plan will introduce students to the glass medium and challenge them to open their eyes to the abstract form.
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5-12
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Free-Form Stencil Drawing
Choose three shapes from a design and build a new composition by repeating and combining these shapes to communicate an idea or story.
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5-12
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Free Form Vessel
Using a balloon and coffee can base, create a sturdy vessel with Sculptamold compound. Finished pieces can be painted and embellished with mosaics and collage matierals.
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5-12
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Global Village
These paper dolls are wonderful to combine with the Global Village Paper. They can easily be turned into old-fashioned paper dolls,
displayed in chains and hung. Or create a globe and arrange dolls around the total outside edge.
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K-5
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Golden Door Book
Using The Golden Door as a theme to search for historical and aesthetic content, students create a paper collage containing relevant images, text and expressions.
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5-12
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Good Fortune Boxes
This lesson plan celebrates the Chinese tradition of passing along good fortune or "Fu" to others.
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K-8
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Goofy Mask
Lots of texture, color and dimension. The cultural diversity in the United States provides for many, many masks
which represent traditional images. This fun mask requires children to create a mask just for themselves.
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K-4
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Hand-Colored History
Students will easily connect with historical studies of their own community or family history.
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5-12
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Illuminated Text
Illumination is the decorating of books or manuscripts with ornate lettering, scrollwork, icons and images. This lesson plan introduces an easy and inexpensive way to apply metal leaf to a single letter, then embellish it using colored pencils.
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5-12
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Impressionist-Style Tile
Through the study of Impressionist painters and their works students will select their own color palette and design an impressionistic scene reminiscent of those painted in the mid 1800s.
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9-12
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Japanese Floating Lanterns
"Toro Nagashi", the Japanese Festival of Floating Lanterns is a beautiful event involving floating paper lanterns. Using YUPO paper and multiple mediums, students make lanterns for indoor or outdoor use.
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K-12
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Jive Foil Puppets
Many cultures create puppets for entertainment and story telling. These jointed "jive" puppets make a light, musical sound as they dance and move on a hand-held rod.
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5-12
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Kente Cloth
Kente is the name for the beautifully colored, traditional woven fabric of West Africa. Like most African art forms,
Kente expresses more than just visual appeal — it represents history, status, religion and social values.
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2-6
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Kinetic Dura-Lar™ Sculpture
This lesson will attract students to the abstract as they create their own hanging kinetic sculptures from lightweight polyester material.
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5-12
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Koi Pond
This interactive torn-paper collage creates pockets for watercolor fish to swim in and may be linked to the study of pond
life (science) and Japanese culture.
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3-6
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Lazertran Band T-Shirts
This lesson plan recognizes the correlation between the two art forms as students create a band T-shirt using visual descriptions of particular music styles. |
9-12
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Melted Crayon Ornaments
This easy, kid-friendly project creates ornaments that sparkle and shine using Crayola Crayons and Sculpey III oven-bake polymer clay.
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K-8
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Metal Tooling with Colored Pencils
Students will apply design elements including line, pattern, texture, and color while considering their relationship to a 3-dimensional surface.
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K-8
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Mexican Bowl
This lesson plan is inspired by the brightly colored pottery of Mexico. This simple papier mâché version casts paper pulp
into a textured bowl using an existing plastic or ceramic bowl as a mold.
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K-4
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Mythical Beasts
Students create a character — half human, half animal — write a story and build a paper maché sculpture of their creation.
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5-12
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Navajo Sand Painting
This lesson plan will help students relate to and understand a Native American Culture as well as helping them learn geographical directions.
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K-4
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On a Starry Night
Students will choose an artwork that inspires them from a specific time, genre or culture, and paint their own version on a cardboard frame.
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3-8
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Origami Village
A single, simple origami pattern is used to make multiple buildings. Students study perspective and structure of a village.
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5-8
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Pastel Fresco
"Secco" is the term used for applying color to dry plaster, the manner Da Vinci used in his famed "The Last Supper." Using Plaster of Paris, students create drawings then purposefully add stress fractures.
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3-12
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Poor Man's Gilding
When gold became too expensive and impractical, Mexican folk artists invented a technique to create gold-colored patterns on a dark wooden surface. Sometimes referred to as "Poor Man’s Gilding", this straw appliqué process is an easy and inexpensive classroom project.
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5-12
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Quilted Foil
Students learn the functionality of tooled metal and texture.
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5-12
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Robot Shoes
This project gives new life to second-hand shoes by turning them into "Robots," sculptural assemblages created with metallic paint, wire and found objects.
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K-8
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Screen Printing Collage
Using a single large screen divided into multiple small square window panes, a class of 15-20 students create their own individual art project that becomes part of the whole.
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3-12
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Shaped Storybook
Design a "big" storybook. Children can write the story and choose something in the story to be the book cover.
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K-3
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Silk Suncatcher
This project is a great way to teach color mixing and will easily link with social studies disciplines following Asian cultures
(Japanese and Chinese silk painting) and also with science, as botanical studies.
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3-8
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Tona Masks
Students select an animal with traits they can recognize in themselves and create a mask that will retain some human features, but take on the life of the animal. This project will link with personal identification and Mexican Folk Art cultural studies.
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K-4
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Van Gogh Clay Plaque
Students will observe and mimic the short, unblended brushstrokes used by Van Gogh and understand their expressive quality.
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5-8
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Water-based Monotype
Students produce a monotype by drawing with ink on a sheet of plastic and discover how line and tonal values interplay to produce various effects.
While printing multiple transparent color overlays, they will also gain an understanding of color mixing.
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3-8
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Waterlily Origami Pop-Up Card
For greetings, gifts or just for fun, students will enjoy making a pop-up card with a lovely folded water lily tucked inside.
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5-8
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Watercolor Principles of Design
This multi-media project links the disciplines of painting and sculpture as students form dimensional paper constructions and paint them with metallic watercolors.
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6-12
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Wheel-Thrown Mimbre Bowls
In this lesson, students will explore Native American pottery traditions, specifically focusing on the Mimbre style, using animal and human imagery with geometric patterns for decoration.
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9-12
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WireForm™ Figure Sculpture
In this lesson for middle-school ages, students will select a character in motion, such as a dancer, athlete or fairy, then capture and describe its movements through pose, form and balance.
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5-12
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