Project Title: Dia de los Muertos Masks (Day of the Dead Masks) Description: Students use their knowledge of patterns to create their own Day of the Dead inspired mask. Author: Dayna Ensminger Grade level or Target Age Range: K-2 Historical Art Examples or References: Images of sugar skulls, Mexican masks, and Day of the Dead …
Project Title: Mexican Desert Collage Description: Students will create a desert-inspired collage during the daytime or nighttime. Author: Dayna Ensminger Grade level or Target Age Range: Elementary Level, ages 5+ Historical Art Examples or References: Discussion of deserts, Mexico, desert landscapes, Mexican artists such as Frida Khalo and Diego Rivera Vocabulary: collage, desert, overlap, blend, …
The preschoolers at Shissler Recreation Center made their own butterfly gardens! The students started by their gardens with pencils and colored pencils, and then painted them with watercolors. We made the butterflies using coffee filters and clothespins. We used two coffee filters per butterfly to make them a bit …
Indigenous Peoples in the Americas Pictographs – Shissler Rec. Center 8/1/17 Coloring the Dreamcatchers – Shissler Rec. Center 8/1/17 This week, the elementary students at Shissler Recreation Center made their own Dreamcatchers! They learned about how Indigenous Peoples in the Americas symbols, or Pictographs, were used to represent different ideas, …
For our 3rd ASI sessions at Fishtown and Cione recreation centers, we lead the 4 groups through four different projects. At Fishtown, we continued the theme of travel and taught the kids about India. For the older group, we had them trace their hands on construction paper and draw their …
Monday, July 24th was our third art session at Cione Recreation Center. We continued our ‘travel’ discussion. This time, we talked about ways we can travel, one being in a hot air balloon! We discussed differences in colors and how they make us feel. Colors like red, orange, and yellow …
Monday, July 24th was our third day at Fishtown Recreation Center. Continuing our travel theme, both the older and younger students traveled to India! We shared a brief discussion on India and what the students knew about the country. With the older students, we focused on henna art – which …
Share the Journey!“Creating Legacies through Art: Take an Art Journey”After a lot of hard work and generous help, we are excited toannounce that “Creating Legacies through Art”, a book offree art lesson plans, will be released todayThe creation of this book began in 2013, in response to anArts Challenge by the …
