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Heart Shaped Mice

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create mice using heart shapes, construction paper, yarn, markers, scissors, and glue in this Art lesson for the early-elementary classroom. The activity is an excellent alternative for use during the Valentine's Day season.
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Love Birds

For Teachers K - 6th
Students create birds using construction paper, pencils, scissors, glue, and heart shapes in this Art lesson for the elementary classroom. The lesson could be used for a Valentine's Day activity or for a special art project during any...
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Cardboard Frames

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create works of art. In this visual arts lesson, students use recycled cardboard to make picture frames. A game, a song, a craft, and a recipe are all included with the lesson to complement the theme.
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String Eggs

For Teachers K - 8th
Students follow instructions to make a string egg and work appropriately and neatly with art materials.
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Questions for Traditional Artists

For Students 6th - 8th
In this classroom applications and fieldwork basics worksheet, students utilize the 20 interview questions once they locate someone in their community who creates traditional art. An oral release is included.
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Colored Glue

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students practice creating colors. In this visual arts lesson, students use glue and food coloring to create new color combinations. A game, a song, a craft, and a recipe are all included with the lesson.
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Secret Message

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students make secret messages. In this visual arts lesson, students use crayons to create secret messages. A game, a song, a craft, and a recipe are all included with the lesson.
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Egg Carton Caterpillar

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create "egg carton caterpillars" using egg cartons, glue, and basic art supplies in this excellent Art, Science, and Language Arts lesson on caterpillars and butterflies. The caterpillars are displayed for two weeks and then...
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Scratch Some Fireworks

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create sheets of "fireworks" using art paper, crayons, black paint, and wooden skewers in this lesson plan that can be adapted to celebrate any time of the year. The lesson plan also includes a short introductory discussion on...
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Washoe Indians: Dat-so-la-lee

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students study the life and crafts of Washoe Indian, Dat-so-la-lee. In this Washoe Indians lesson, students read and study the life of Washoe Indian basket weaver Dat-so-la-lee. Students study images of her crafts and discuss the...
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Barbie Holder

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students create a barbie holder. In this craft lesson, students put a toilet paper tube into a piece of cardboard and decorate it. They put Barbie's legs into the tube and let the skirt lie over the tube. 
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The Artist at Work

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students analyze art pieces of Picasso and Diego Velazquez to consider artists self-portraits using their work tools. In this art analysis lesson, students complete introductory and image based discuss to consider how an artist chooses...
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Watercolor Rainbow Fish

For Teachers K
Students experience an art project as a follow up to reading The Rainbow Fish.
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Winter: Let's Build a Snowman

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this winter craft worksheet, students use the provided patterns to create a paper snowman. Students follow detailed directions to make this craft.
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Spelling Cow

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice their spelling words by completing the cow craft. In this spelling craft lesson plan, students cut out and create a cow. Students print their spelling words on the cow.
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Fall vs. Spring

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students learn about fall and spring by engaging in hands-on activities in order to fulfill science and language arts standards. In this lesson on seasons, students first listen to a story about fall, discuss the characteristics of the...
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East Meets West: The Art of Simplicity

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine the influences of Japan on American life through this three lesson unit. Feudal Japan with its traditional arts and culture is contrasted with current developments of the country.
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Starch lines - manipulatives

For Teachers K
Students actively explore lines in art, and intuitively create an art object using an unusual media.
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Fiber of Life

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the importance of plants to individuals and society through a multi-discipline set of activities. They observe and draw different leaf structures and then create a book about trees and photosynthesis. They explore ways...
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Draw Like an Egyptian

For Teachers K - 12th
Students craft their own Egyptian art. In this ancient Egyptian art instructional activity, students explore Egyptian art and create their own work following the 4 guidelines presented in the instructional activity.
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Japanese Festival Mask Making

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn about Japanese culture and make a mask. In this lesson about Japanese mask-making, students use research and art to explore the Japanese culture. Students research Japanese masks. Students design their own Japanese mask....
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Garbage: A Puppet's Paradise

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students make puppets from recycled materials. In this puppetry and recycling lesson, students investigate different types of puppets and their uses. They make puppets using mostly recycled materials such as old socks, CD's, dry lint,...
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Paper Weaving

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students create an art project. In this paper weaving lesson, students discuss the skill and art of weaving and use construction paper to practice the weaving technique learned.
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Monster Finger Puppets

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this monster craft worksheet, students use 5 patterns to create monster finger puppets. Students color, cut, and insert fingers into the holes.

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