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Winter Crayon Resists
In need of a quick art project to chase away those winter blues? In just six steps you'll know how to instruct learners on creating winter scenes using crayon resist.
Star Wars in the Classroom
"Shakespeare and Star Wars": Lesson Plan Day 1
"Now is the summer of our happiness/Made winter by this sudden, fierce attack!" Luke Skywalker meets Hamlet in a 10-lesson plan unit based on Ian Doescher's William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, a New Hope. Using Star Wars® as source...
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Clay Pot Winter Friends
Students create ice blue, clay pot winter friends using clay pots, ice blue paints, markers, felt, and fabric in this Art lesson for the winter time. The lesson would be ideal for the early elementary classroom during the winter months.
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Winter Wonderland Windows
Students practice painting landscapes on windows and participate in hands-on activities to expose them to different types of media. They create a winter wonderland effect on windows.
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Winter Wonderland
Students complete activities to learn about the winter season. In this seasonal activities lesson, students listen to 'The Waltz of the Snowflakes' and discuss winter scenes. Students then use materials to construct a winter scene.
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Rhythm and Improv, Jazz and Poetry
Connect the ideas of jazz improvisation and art to writing poetry. Learners collaborate and write different lines of poetry, imitating the jazz styles of improvisation and freewriting. Take a close look at the poems "Tenebrae" by Yusef...
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Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
A thorough lesson plan takes your first grade class through Jane Yolen's beautiful Owl Moon. It crafts the unit with clear objectives, high-level guiding questions, cloze activities and sentence frames, and extension activities at the...
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Hand And Foot Print Reindeer
Students create reindeer out of paper cut-outs of their own hands and feet in this fun and quick Art activity for the early-elementary classroom. The lesson may be accomplished as an individual or small group (partner) project.
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Wooden Starflakes
Students create wooden "Starflakes" for the Holiday season in this excellent lesson suitable for the elementary level Art class. Resource links are provided for introuctory activities involving basic snowflake creations and ideas on...
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Clay Pot Snowmen
Students create "clay pot" snowmen using clay pots, glue, mitten scraps, paints, and markers in this early-elementary Art instructional activity. The instructional activity may take 1-2 days depending on the amount of time it takes for...
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Snowflake Printing
Students create snowflakes using white glue, plastic fruit baskets, glitter, and dark construction paper in this art activity that teaches the concept of printmaking. Emphasis is placed upon understanding and applying media, techniques,...
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Snowman in Winter Sequence Writing
Students develop a creative snowman using step-by-step stickers. They write a short story about the snowman they have created, explaining the sequence they used to create their snowman. Students present their completed story in front of...
ESL Kid Stuff
Christmas Lesson 2
Wrapping presents, singing Christmas carols, writing Christmas cards and learning holiday vocabulary are all wrapped into this one exciting ESL instructional activity.
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Styroflakes
Students increase eye-hand coordination as they create decorative snowflakes out of recycled packing peanuts.
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Similes in Literature: Definition and Examples
Be as romantic as a poetic. Appear as clever as Einstein. Wow others with your powers of observation by using similes to point out the similar aspects in two different things. This short video focuses on similes found in Shakespeare and...
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Mother's Day Craft
Students create a flower pot for their mom on mother's day. They use pictures found in magazines to create a collage on the flower pot. They are to follow instructions to complete this lesson plan.
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Snow Globes
Here's a great art lesson that should be a hit with your kids. You'll need to get a bunch of baby food jars. A small item is glued to the underside of the jar lid, then plastic snow, glitter, and water are added to the jar. The lid is...
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Sunset Silhouettes
Students create "SUNSET SILHOUETTES" using primary colors, black construction paper, and glue in this elementary-level Art lesson. The lesson extension included with this lesson involves creating a nativity scene and might be...
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Clay Pot Santa And Mrs. Claus
Young scholars create clay replicas of Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus in this early-elementary Art instructional activity for the holiday season. Directions are included for both Mrs. Claus and Santa. The instructional activity also includes...
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Balancing Act: Olympics, Winter Sports, Ice Skating, Gravity, Physics, Science
Students, by way of the Olympic Games event of ice skating, are introduced to the concepts of gravity. They try some hands-on gravity experiments and explore the concept of gravity through art.
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Toilet Paper Tube Snowman
Learners create "toilet paper tube" snowmen using toilet paper rolls, paints, pipecleaners, construtcion paper, wiggly eyes, and markers in this winter-time activity. The lesson is intended for the early elementary classroom.
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Whimsical Wooden Santa
Students create wooden Santas using small blocks of wood, paint, holiday materials, doll hair, glue, and berry leaves in this Holiday art lesson for the elementary classroom. The lesson includes resource links and a finished example of...
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Triangle Angel
Students create triangular angels in this winter-time lesson plan for the early elementary classroom. Materials include poster paper, scissors, glue, markers, cotton balls, yarn, and glitter. A fun and simple way for younger children...
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Adorable Snow Folks
Students create "Snow Folks" using children's mittens, rice, wooden balls, and various art materials in this Art instructional activity for grades Four and up. The instructional activity includes picture examples and suggestions for...