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 …
In art classes at Northern Liberties Recreation Center, students learned the Chinese Calendar animal associated with their birth year while gaining an appreciation for Chinese-American culture. They also heard about the nearly 15 days of celebration events that take place in Chinatown during every Chinese New Year! Vocabulary: Stylized, symbolic color, ink, uniform …
Previous Next Students draw pictures of cats on chairs with abstract paintings in the background. OBJECTIVES 1. Planning consecutive art classes using subject matter of pets from our first project, looking at photographs, and making realistic drawings.2. Learning to fold paper origami pets to see how placement of triangles can differentiate a …
Project Description: Students draw a universal message based on the holiday theme of St. Patrick’s Day. While making traditional holiday symbols, youth explore “symmetry” with shamrocks, learn the “color wheel” with rainbows and have discussion of the symbolism of finding a “pot of gold.” Historical references can also be explored, such as starvation, poverty, …
Activities for Ages: 5-12 Anticipatory set: Students sit on edges of square sheets of paper placed on the floor. Teacher plays name game with students. Part 1: Teacher discusses what a mural is, explains the mural-making process, and shows examples of murals. Teacher describes the class agenda and the theme of …
