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Art Project Ideas: Everything You Need
Help students strengthen their visual-spatial skills by working on these projects.
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Painting: Talking and Doing
Grades: 3–5, 6–8
Activity: Help students explore the world of art as both a subject to study as well as one to practice. Students can use newspapers, magazin
Computer Lab Activities, Online Learning Activities, Writing Activities, Book Resources, Books
Suspension Bridges: Connecting Lives
Grades: 6–8
Students plan, build, and test their own suspension bridges.
Art Project Ideas
Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12
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Articles Mapping and Overlapping: The Importance of CollageGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Activity: In making a collage, students can bring to it all of the questions that they consider when making a painting or a sculpture, but m |
Online Learning Activities, Writing Activities Web Sitings: Virtual Art, Real LearningGrades: 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Describes how students can use the Internet to see visual representations of the topics they're studying and even create their own virtual art... |
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Collections Craft Ideas for January and February HolidaysGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 Seasonally-themed craft projects for Groundhog Day, the Chinese New Year, Presidents' Day, and more! |
Activities and Games 5 Crafty Valentine's Day IdeasGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 Get in the Valentine's Day spirit with these crafty ideas to decorate your classroom. |
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Spectacular State StudiesGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Creative ideas for learning about your state and its history. Includes a scavenger hunt. |
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Collections Strategies for Arts IntegrationGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 These articles explain the why and the how for returning the arts their place in the nation's schools. |
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Holiday Crafts and MoreGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 Holiday arts and crafts, ideas for a team-building field trip, and ways to liven up indoor recess. |
Lesson Plans, Extension Activities Making Models of the Solar SystemGrades: 1–2, 3–5 Students learn the positions of the planets in the solar system as well as relative distances and sizes through modeling. |
Simple and Impressive Planet ArtGrades: 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 My art skills were arrested at about the 4th grade level: My students can attest to that! So, when I was able to produce a pretty impressive... |
Activities and Games Teaching Tip: Incorporate the ArtsGrades: 6–8, 9–12 Tips for incorporating the arts into a highschool classroom. |
How to Create a School Art ShowGrades: Moore discusses an approach that offers a host of ideas that will help a teacher and the children in her program make the most of art activities... |
Activities and Games, Unit Plans Let’s Be Artists!Grades: 1–2 Details a unique plan for teaching students about the varied aesthetic styles of well-known visual artists and illustrators. |
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Book Resources, Lesson Plans Harry Potter ProjectsGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Teacher recommendations for class projects using the Harry Potter book series. |
Activity Plan 2-3: Torn-Paper CollageGrades: PreK–K In this ready-to-use teaching idea, two- and three-year olds will develop children's fine-motor skills, encourage creative thinking, and engage... |
Activity Plan 3-4: Recycled TreasuresGrades: PreK–K Children will develop creative-thinking, social-development, and language skills and an awareness of the environment in this ready-to-use teaching... |
Activity Plan 3-4: Build a NeighborhoodGrades: PreK–K Children will work collaboratively to create thier own bustling town of cardboard homes. |














