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Lesson Plans by Discipline - Drawing
Grades K – 4 |
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The stenciled hand print and aboriginal style drawings help children to relate to the man from the Australian Aboriginal Culture, while helping them to understand the use of line in art. |
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Students create stunning transparent, glass-like mosaic pieces with acrylic paint and polymer gloss medium. |
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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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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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“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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Explore the history of carnival masks in various cultures, such as Mardi Gras in New Orleans, the Carnival of Venice and "Commedia Dell'arte" in Italy. Ornate and colorful masks are easy to create with Scratch-Art® Clear-Scratch™ film and permanent Sharpie® markers. |
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A more complex project for older children. Great for developing a better understanding of 3 dimensional space and geometry. |
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A simple project that requires minimal resources, but teaches children spacial relationships. |
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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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Students learn a different art process while doing this project, as well as an awareness of texture. |
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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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Examples of intricately-designed stained glass can be found around the world: from gothic and medieval cathedral glass, to the art of Louis Tiffany and John La Farge. This project creates the look of stained glass in a simple process using Scratch-Art® Clear-Scratch™ film and permanent Sharpie® markers. |
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This project is impressionistic in technique and does not require detail. |
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This project requires students to work with the same issues confronted by professional sculptors, working in the round, the work being understandable to the viewer, and structural stability. |
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Students will employ easy-to-use and safe materials in an introductory printmaking lesson. |
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Every child is a flower! Their self portraits are fun and make a beautiful garden in the classroom. Oil pastels and wiggly eyes brighten the flowers. |
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Adaptable for almost any age level, the basis for this lesson is very simple: define a space and fill it with a repetition of color, line and shape to make what we define as a Pattern. |
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"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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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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The experience of drawing on a lightweight foil is a wonderful exercise for young children and children with special needs. |
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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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This project uses pastels – a favored medium of Impressionist artists – drawn onto matte surface Shrink Film. The chalk of the pastels doesn't actually shrink, it simply condenses along with the film to form rich, intense areas of color. |
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Monoprinting with Watercolor Markers A simple project that introduces students to printing. |
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Review of Native American Indian Culture. 2000 years ago, the Anasazi Indians inhabited the cliffs of the Southwest. They left Petroglyph drawings on rocks and cliffs. Students will learn more about this culture as they draw depictions of these symbols. |
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Many Plains Indian tribes created masks for their horses to give them a look of intimidating power and fierceness. Students create a horse-shaped mask that can be worn or hung for display. |
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Students learn to work with leather in the manner of Native American craftsmen. |
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Students learn a very basic bookbinding technique incorporating a dimensional object and simple fastening method. |
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"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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Students learn a nontraditional art process with this project. |
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Pop Charts - 3D Charts and Graphs This page offers a few suggestions for creative art projects that support mathematical instruction on chart and graph reading. |
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Rubbings from Relief Sculpture The rubbings in this lesson plan are made with images foound in cemeteries, embellished with patterns from texture plates. Plan the art activity as a field trip or as homework with parental guidance. |
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Design a "big" storybook. Children can write the story and choose something in the story to be the book cover. |
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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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With this simple project, students create their own stencils which are then used to make a cityscape. |
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Students explore textures and shapes with this fun and simple project. |
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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 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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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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Explore the history of carnival masks in various cultures, such as Mardi Gras in New Orleans, the Carnival of Venice and "Commedia Dell'arte" in Italy. Ornate and colorful masks are easy to create with Scratch-Art® Clear-Scratch™ film and permanent Sharpie® markers. |
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A more complex project for older children. Great for developing a better understanding of 3 dimensional space and geometry. |
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A simple project that requires minimal resources, but teaches children spacial relationships. |
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Repoussé (or Repajado in Spanish cultures) is an ancient form of relief sculpture in which a design is pressed into a sheet of metal to create a 3-dimensional surface. |
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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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Students learn a different art process while doing this project, as well as an awareness of texture. |
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This lesson plan uses interactive floating layers and windows to create depth within the artwork. |
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This project is a unique, fun lesson in establishing a hero and developing an Artists' Hall of Fame. |
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Examples of intricately-designed stained glass can be found around the world: from gothic and medieval cathedral glass, to the art of Louis Tiffany and John La Farge. This project creates the look of stained glass in a simple process using Scratch-Art® Clear-Scratch™ film and permanent Sharpie® markers. |
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This project requires students to work with the same issues confronted by professional sculptors, working in the round, the work being understandable to the viewer, and structural stability. |
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Students will employ easy-to-use and safe materials in an introductory printmaking lesson. |
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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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Adaptable for almost any age level, the basis for this lesson is very simple: define a space and fill it with a repetition of color, line and shape to make what we define as a Pattern. |
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Students will easily connect with historical studies of their own community or family history. |
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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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"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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Gives students just starting in cartooning an opportunity to study Manga. |
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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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The experience of drawing on a lightweight foil is a wonderful exercise for young children and children with special needs. |
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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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This project uses pastels – a favored medium of Impressionist artists – drawn onto matte surface Shrink Film. The chalk of the pastels doesn't actually shrink, it simply condenses along with the film to form rich, intense areas of color. |
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Monoprinting with Watercolor Markers A simple project that introduces students to printing. |
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Many Plains Indian tribes created masks for their horses to give them a look of intimidating power and fierceness. Students create a horse-shaped mask that can be worn or hung for display. |
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Students learn to work with leather in the manner of Native American craftsmen. |
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Students learn a very basic bookbinding technique incorporating a dimensional object and simple fastening method. |
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Students will define a purpose for creating a functional work of art and identify its effectiveness and unique characteristics within a certain cultural and social setting. |
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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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"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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Students learn a nontraditional art process with this project. |
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Students create computer mosaic drawings with magazine illustrations, or photos emphasizing changing shades and tones using the total image or a section of it. |
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Pop Charts - 3D Charts and Graphs This page offers a few suggestions for creative art projects that support mathematical instruction on chart and graph reading. |
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Students learn the functionality of tooled metal and texture. |
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Rubbings from Relief Sculpture The rubbings in this lesson plan are made with images foound in cemeteries, embellished with patterns from texture plates. Plan the art activity as a field trip or as homework with parental guidance. |
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With this simple project, students create their own stencils which are then used to make a cityscape. |
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Students explore textures and shapes with this fun and simple project. |
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Grades 9 – 12 |
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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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Repoussé (or Repajado in Spanish cultures) is an ancient form of relief sculpture in which a design is pressed into a sheet of metal to create a 3-dimensional surface. |
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This lesson plan uses interactive floating layers and windows to create depth within the artwork. |
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This project is a unique, fun lesson in establishing a hero and developing an Artists' Hall of Fame. |
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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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Students will easily connect with historical studies of their own community or family history. |
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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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"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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Students learn a very basic bookbinding technique incorporating a dimensional object and simple fastening method. |
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Students will define a purpose for creating a functional work of art and identify its effectiveness and unique characteristics within a certain cultural and social setting. |
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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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"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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Students create computer mosaic drawings with magazine illustrations, or photos emphasizing changing shades and tones using the total image or a section of it. |
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Students learn the functionality of tooled metal and texture. |
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This project is about drawing a realistic representation in order to practice your observation skills. |
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