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Coffee Filter Eggs

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students make coffee filter eggs. In this art activity, students cut coffee filters into egg shapes. Food coloring is added to water and students drop the colors onto the eggs using a eyedropper. Students allow the filters to dry and...
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Let's Call It Automatic

For Teachers 3rd - Higher Ed
Students write whatever comes into their minds quickly and extend that strategy to art. They draw whatever ideas come to mind and students create in a stream of consciousness style. They listen to different types of music while drawing.
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Analysis of Fauvism

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze artworks created by the Fauves to establish the characteristics of this style of art In small groups students work to describe and analyze 5 characteristics of Fauvism and 5 reasons Fauvism was developed. he frthr...
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Flowers a la O'keefe

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners are introduced to the artwork of Georgia O'keefe. The lesson presents the history and style of the artist. Then the learners are given the chance to create their own artwork. The goal of the lesson is to build art appreciation...
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Illuminated Text

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the technique of ancient decorative gilding used to support literature. They begin by tracing letters onto double tack release paper, then place onto cardstock before burnishing with a Simple Leaf sheet. Opaque Blick...
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Love Bug Bag

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create "love bug bags" using pink pipe cleaners, construction paper, glue, glitter or sand, and a lunch sack in this Art lesson plan for the early-elementary classroom. This can be used in the Springtime or as a Valentine's Day...
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Exploring the Jungles of Rousseau

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore the masterworks of Henri Rousseau and accurately interpret masterworks of Rousseau. Students effectively demonstrate visually and orally an understanding of the content of masterworks of Rousseau and thoughtfully reflect...
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Wall Paper and Paint Mosaic

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create a wall mosaic. In this art activity, students post one large piece of butcher paper on a wall. Pieces of construction paper are torn into small squares. These small squares are dipped in the paint and put on the large...
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Forming Relationships Using Music & Rhythm

For Teachers K
Students make connections to other cultures and traditions through music, dance, art, and poetry.
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Blank Jigsaw Puzzles

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this craft worksheet, students design and create a jigsaw puzzle. Students draw a picture on the blank puzzle sheet, laminate or mount it, and cut out the puzzle. This page has puzzles for 9,10,12 or 24 pieces.
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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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Thumbody Loves You

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students make thumbprints with stamp pads. In this art lesson, after making their thumbprints students put eyes, nose, mouth, hair, legs and arms on the thumbprint.
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Translating Traditions

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners analyze art reflective of traditions and cultural heritage. In this art analysis lesson plan, students complete image based discussion.
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Instant Pictures Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 8th
Students create images from simple shapes.
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Lesson Plan: A Guided Tour

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Albert Bierstadt's painting Wind River Country shows viewers how a reader progresses through a story. Your class studies the light and dark areas, how the eye moves across the painting, and what attracts the audience to the work, and...
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Putting It All Together

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars examine a painting.  In this shapes and puzzle lesson, students view Guston's painting Blue Water and identify the colors, shapes and recognizable forms.  Young scholars work in groups to put together puzzle pieces of the...
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Families are Funny- Drawing a Comic Strip

For Students 4th - 6th
In this family comic book worksheet, students examine examples of comic strips about families. They plan and draw their own 3 panel family comic strip using drawing tools. They investigate more about drawing comic strips by visiting a...
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Graffitti

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Here is a fun way to encourage a cooperative classroom, drawing skills, and creative expression. Each child draws a design or shape on his paper, then he rotates to the next child's paper where he adds to the previous design. When the...
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PASS the Arts

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners explore math and art concepts, create digital art examples of the concepts, and incorporate these works into a PowerPoint portfolio with explanation and analysis.
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Blick Liquid Watercolor

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students explore the use of watercolors in the making of paintings that incorporate the use of shapes and overlapping them into new ones. The skills of using positive and negative space is strengthened as they are applied in these...
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What Bees Eat

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students study plant and animal interdependence by studying bees and pollination. In this interdependence lesson, students discuss flower parts and dissect it to show its reproductive parts. Students then use tissue and pipe cleaners to...
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Collaborative Collage - A Lesson in Creative Chaos

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students examine the works of abstract and collage artists. They explore alternate methods of paint application that reinforce the elements of rhythm and movement and create collages based on these principles.
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Artists' Journeys

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students analyze the influence of travel on modern artists and discuss unusual use of medium.  In this modern artists lesson, students discover works of Gauguin, Matisse, and Kandinsky. Students look at ways these artists were inspired...
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Instruments In Action

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students read and demonstrate eight measures of four beats. In this music reading lesson, students read and demonstrate through movement their mastery of eight measures of four beats. Students also classify instruments.