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Acrylic Techniques

Media Types: Clay
Grade Bands: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, K-2
Chart of acrylic painting techniques.

Shape Collage

Media Types: Collage
Grade Bands: K-2, Pre-K
In this activity, children will explore different textured papers and use them to make a collage.

Encore—Collage Portraits: Romare Bearden 

Media Types: Collage
Grade Bands: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
In this lesson, you will look closely at a collage portrait by Romare Bearden for inspiration and explore how color, gesture, and details can communicate the personality of a subject in your own collage portrait.

Exploring Clay

Media Types: Clay
Grade Bands: K-2, Pre-K
In this activity, children will explore different textured papers and use them to make a collage.

Mixing The Greens of a Plant

Media Types: Painting
Grade Bands: K-2, Pre-K
Children will explore mixing blue, yellow, and white to make different greens. Children can mix the different greens they notice on a plant.

Stamping

Media Types: Printmaking
Grade Bands: K-2, Pre-K
In this activity, children will explore different textured papers and use them to make a collage.

Remembered Landscapes: Nancy Grossman  

Media Types: Collage, Painting
Grade Bands: 3-5
In this lesson, you will look closely at a collage by Nancy Grossman for inspiration and explore how color, shape, and composition can describe the memory of a landscape or place.

Texture Collage

Media Types: Collage
Grade Bands: K-2, Pre-K
In this activity, children will explore different textured papers and use them to make a collage.

Wood Construction

Media Types: Sculpture
Grade Bands: K-2, Pre-K
In this activity, children will explore stacking, leaning, and balancing as they build with wood pieces. 

Shadow Puppets

Media Types: Collage, Puppetry
Grade Bands: K-2, Pre-K
In this activity, children will tear and arrange shapes to make a shadow puppet.