Description: Name tag on folded paper with personal drawn designs and taped decorations. Name written on the tag will be similar to an organism’s scientific name, consisting of the genus of an actual organism that can be found at the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge (such as Ardea for great blue heron) combined with …
Project Title: Paper Plate Hats Description: Themes may vary. Have the children design a fun and easy paper plate hat for almost any holiday and/or special occasion. Students may create a story to go along with their creations. Author: Alysia Grade level or Target Age Range: Elementary grades 1-5 Historical Art …
Description: Group-made drawing of a creature composed of insect or animal body parts individually drawn, similar to the games, Telephone, Pictionary, or whisper-down-the-lane. Objective:Students get to experiment with a variety of materials and begin to share creativity while getting to know each other. Author: Kristin, edit by Blair Grade level …
Description: Introductions; name tags written in bubble letters and decorated with animal and food items corresponding to the first letter of the student’s name. Objective: Students and teacher have an opportunity to learn one another’s names and to equate written language with visual symbols. This understanding will help encourage students to …
Card making is a great way for communities to connect. Valentine’s Day is a great holiday to let people without loved ones nearby know that they are still thought of and surrounded by others who care. Making cards is a wonderful way for participants to express themselves and experiment with materials …
Overview: Students work within an overall theme of “Celebrating Diversity” to create a mural. Students work together in teams of four to six students. These groups work independently on the mural project using watercolor paper panels, which have been divided into equal sections for each group. Groups use stencils, watercolors, and …
Individual shoebox diorama displaying a portrait of a character, the student, or someone the student knows, in a landscape within the interior of the cardboard box. Lesson 1. Appreciation for and understanding the environment, ourselves, and each other. 2. Awareness of the effect we may have on the environment and …
In art classes at Northern Liberties Recreation Center, students learned their Chinese Calendar animal using their birth year. They made layered crayon rubbings of all the different textures they could find in the classroom to decorate the bodies of their snakes with scales and patterns. Using tape, they made the heads of …
