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Lesson Plans by Discipline - Collage
Grades K – 4 |
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Students create stunning transparent, glass-like mosaic pieces with acrylic paint and polymer gloss medium. |
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Students experiment with texture by turning a liquid into a solid and finally into a 3-D work of art. |
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Create Hawaiian-inspired shirts with brightly-colored flowers, leaves, and fish by printing them using fabric paints. "Gyotaku" - the Japanese word for "fish print"- is a fun and exciting way to give shirts an island beach look. |
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Artist Trading Cards are a fascinating pastime for a great number of professional artists. The cards are always 2½" × 3½", a size that fits into standard baseball card storage sleeves. |
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Using Tee Juice® Fabric Markers, students design a pair of painted shoes reminiscent of a famous artist's style and choices of subjects and colors. |
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“Write” names and messages by stringing beads on a bendable wire. Hang finished pieces in a window, string on a necklace or around a hat, pin to a bulletin board or display on a piece of matboard as a piece of art. |
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The new metallic paints are beautiful. Mix with different types of paints and "Glitter It" mediums to make paper tiles. |
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Don't throw away your old paper scraps! Save them for this project. Use torn paper to create new species of bugs. |
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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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Listed are colorful samples of simple fans. Discuss the importance of fans and how they were used to keep people comfortable for years. |
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"Drawing with Yarn" is an interpretation of work by Wassily Kandinski in 1913. Kandinski is called the first totally abstract artist. Free flowing water color and line suggests but does not define images. |
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This drawing project gives creativity a nudge by having children select a photo to start the drawing and then expanding it with related subject matter drawn all around it. |
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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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Punched tin and metal is an old, traditional craft that involves creating holes in metal with sharp tools to form a design. Original designs were abstract patterns. This safe and colorful version is also abstract. |
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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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This lesson plan celebrates the Chinese tradition of passing along good fortune or "Fu" to others. |
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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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How Grandmother Spider Stole the Sun Students will be introduced to a Native American story, "How Grandmother Spider Stol the Sun", told by Joseph Brucha. They will use this to create a work of art out of clay and other materials, rather than paint and paper. |
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Students learn to apply yarn painting techniques in combining their ideas and their art. |
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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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Found in art and architecture around the world, labyrinths are associated with metaphor, mystery and mythology. Incorporating various materials, students create their own labyrinths that may also be used as a simple game. |
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This simple lesson plan encourages students to create patterns by overlapping and defining lines on a canvas panel, and add dimension by incorporating more canvases or objects. |
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Create classroom fun with magnetic puzzles, a great exercise for classroom art history discussions. Each student can take home a masterpiece for their refrigerator. |
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The experience of drawing on a lightweight foil is a wonderful exercise for young children and children with special needs. |
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Similar to the Positive and Negative Space activity, this lesson will let the children's imaginations run wild. |
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Teach students about the unique symbolism of Native American culture while they learn valuable design and drawing skills. |
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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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A simple lesson to explore the basic concepts of weaving. |
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Students learn a nontraditional art process with this project. |
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Personal flags are expressions of a student's own life in symbols and serve as a link between the student and his or her environment. |
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Introduce students to Pop-Art while creating fun, colorful ties. |
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Minimal resources, great results! This lesson promotes an awareness of shape and space. |
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Button art is an inexpensive, creative project that's easy to do with a group, and produces great results. |
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Students construct a 3-dimensional form and fill it with rice to make gentle, percussive sounds. |
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Use two pieces of construction paper, scissors, and glue to explore pattern and repetition. |
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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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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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This is a simple and tidy art project with a special surprise — what appears to be "ugly" black scales are revealed to be sparkly, holographic ones! |
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An easy bookmaking lesson that works across the entire curriculum. Students make books to use as journals or scrapbooks and fill with personnel stories or poetry, sketches or photos. |
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Construction paper and glue is all that's needed for this project. |
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Students make printmaking papers, cards, book covers, picture frames and photo mats. |
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Make beautiful boxes to fill with good wishes. They make perfect gifts and give students experience with the arts of Calligraphy and Origami. |
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Grades 5 – 8 |
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Students create a dimensional "line drawing" out of flexible wire then cover it with assorted papers and tissues for a whimsical, lightweight sculpture. |
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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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Students create stunning transparent, glass-like mosaic pieces with acrylic paint and polymer gloss medium. |
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Students experiment with texture by turning a liquid into a solid and finally into a 3-D work of art. |
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Creates African-inspired art by covering paper-maché boxes with Leather Bookcloth. Emboss with patterns and textures and add colorful beads by gluing or stitching. |
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Artist Trading Cards are a fascinating pastime for a great number of professional artists. The cards are always 2½" × 3½", a size that fits into standard baseball card storage sleeves. |
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Bead bottles are the result of studying Huichol beaded gourds. Their technique can be applied to 3D objects available to students. Hours and hours of dedication are involved in the small bottle art. |
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The new metallic paints are beautiful. Mix with different types of paints and "Glitter It" mediums to make paper tiles. |
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Don't throw away your old paper scraps! Save them for this project. Use torn paper to create new species of bugs. |
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Students learn to make small, decorated boxes called "Nichos," a means in Mexican and South American cultures to provide a stage-like setting for an object or collection of objects that have great significance. |
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Students use corrugated cardboard to create art with this project. In the process, they learn about using nonconventional materials in art. |
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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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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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Listed are colorful samples of simple fans. Discuss the importance of fans and how they were used to keep people comfortable for years. |
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"Drawing with Yarn" is an interpretation of work by Wassily Kandinski in 1913. Kandinski is called the first totally abstract artist. Free flowing water color and line suggests but does not define images. |
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Punched tin and metal is an old, traditional craft that involves creating holes in metal with sharp tools to form a design. Original designs were abstract patterns. This safe and colorful version is also abstract. |
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Dimensional collage using wire mesh and acrylic gel medium. Develop color, texture and design with paint, photocopies, images, music, text, colorful papers and many different objects inside the transaprent gel. Once dry, the form can be easily manipulated into a bowl. |
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Students design and make a finished product that involves breaking up their 2D design and adjusting it into a relief. |
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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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This lesson plan celebrates the Chinese tradition of passing along good fortune or "Fu" to others. |
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Students learn to apply yarn painting techniques in combining their ideas and their art. |
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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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Found in art and architecture around the world, labyrinths are associated with metaphor, mystery and mythology. Incorporating various materials, students create their own labyrinths that may also be used as a simple game. |
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This process takes any computer image and turns it into a 3-dimensional sculpture. |
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This simple lesson plan encourages students to create patterns by overlapping and defining lines on a canvas panel, and add dimension by incorporating more canvases or objects. |
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The experience of drawing on a lightweight foil is a wonderful exercise for young children and children with special needs. |
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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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This project memorializes heroes and ancestors in fabric. The disciplines of music and dance combine with the visual arts to produce plays and theatrical presentations of the spirit. |
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Maki-e translates "sprinkle pictures" – the beautiful art of Japanese lacquerware. To achieve a similar look, cut and glue painted papers to a surface and sprinkle with metallic powdered pigments. |
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Molas are the brightly colored applique panels made only in the San Blas region of Panama by the Kuna Indians. Once the paper Molas are completed, have the children discuss their importance to the Kuna Indian women and their culture. |
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Alphabet samplers were popular during the 19th century and were embroidered on linen or canvas. This lesson plan celebrates the unique qualities of paper available for artists with a version of the sampler made with paper and art techniques. |
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Students learn a nontraditional art process with this project. |
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Personal flags are expressions of a student's own life in symbols and serve as a link between the student and his or her environment. |
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Introduce students to Pop-Art while creating fun, colorful ties. |
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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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Preserving
Flowers and Recycle garden trimmings by preserving them in acrylic and creating artwork collages with acrylic mediums and paint. |
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Button art is an inexpensive, creative project that's easy to do with a group, and produces great results. |
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Students construct a 3-dimensional form and fill it with rice to make gentle, percussive sounds. |
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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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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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Students investigate dolls and games in history and cultures. This particular lesson challenges students to look into the future and reflect on the past. |
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An easy bookmaking lesson that works across the entire curriculum. Students make books to use as journals or scrapbooks and fill with personnel stories or poetry, sketches or photos. |
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Construction paper and glue is all that's needed for this project. |
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Students make printmaking papers, cards, book covers, picture frames and photo mats. |
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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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Grades 9 – 12 |
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Students create a dimensional "line drawing" out of flexible wire then cover it with assorted papers and tissues for a whimsical, lightweight sculpture. |
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Students create stunning transparent, glass-like mosaic pieces with acrylic paint and polymer gloss medium. |
|
|
|
Students experiment with texture by turning a liquid into a solid and finally into a 3-D work of art. |
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Creates African-inspired art by covering paper-maché boxes with Leather Bookcloth. Emboss with patterns and textures and add colorful beads by gluing or stitching. |
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Bead bottles are the result of studying Huichol beaded gourds. Their technique can be applied to 3D objects available to students. Hours and hours of dedication are involved in the small bottle art. |
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Students use all the elements and principles of design. |
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Students learn to make small, decorated boxes called "Nichos," a means in Mexican and South American cultures to provide a stage-like setting for an object or collection of objects that have great significance. |
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Using the example of a suspension bridge, students plan and create a sculpture focused on balance, stability and strength. Foamboard with colorful wire provides a blending of aesthetics and function. |
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Students use corrugated cardboard to create art with this project. In the process, they learn about using nonconventional materials in art. |
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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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Dimensional collage using wire mesh and acrylic gel medium. Develop color, texture and design with paint, photocopies, images, music, text, colorful papers and many different objects inside the transaprent gel. Once dry, the form can be easily manipulated into a bowl. |
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Students design and make a finished product that involves breaking up their 2D design and adjusting it into a relief. |
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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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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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This process takes any computer image and turns it into a 3-dimensional sculpture. |
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Incorporating New Media with traditional art, this process challenges students to use digital images to create a mask or 3-dimensional portrait. |
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This simple lesson plan encourages students to create patterns by overlapping and defining lines on a canvas panel, and add dimension by incorporating more canvases or objects. |
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This project memorializes heroes and ancestors in fabric. The disciplines of music and dance combine with the visual arts to produce plays and theatrical presentations of the spirit. |
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Maki-e translates "sprinkle pictures" – the beautiful art of Japanese lacquerware. To achieve a similar look, cut and glue painted papers to a surface and sprinkle with metallic powdered pigments. |
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Alphabet samplers were popular during the 19th century and were embroidered on linen or canvas. This lesson plan celebrates the unique qualities of paper available for artists with a version of the sampler made with paper and art techniques. |
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Introduce students to Pop-Art while creating fun, colorful ties. |
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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 ManÕs Gilding", this straw appliquŽ process is an easy and inexpensive classroom project. |
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|
|
Preserving
Flowers and Recycle garden trimmings by preserving them in acrylic and creating artwork collages with acrylic mediums and paint. |
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|
Button art is an inexpensive, creative project that's easy to do with a group, and produces great results. |
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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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Students investigate dolls and games in history and cultures. This particular lesson challenges students to look into the future and reflect on the past. |
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Every Spring my art students want to go outside to sketch. In anticipation of an outbreak of Spring fever this year, one class made their own journals to take outdoors and fill with impressions, observations, and daydreams. |
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An easy bookmaking lesson that works across the entire curriculum. Students make books to use as journals or scrapbooks and fill with personnel stories or poetry, sketches or photos. |
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Students will use collage as an impressionistic painting medium. |
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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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Construct a metal wire and mesh relief sculpture. This is a "prickly" process but worth the effort! |
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