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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.

Expressing Emotions: Käthe Kollwitz

Media Types: Drawing
Grade Bands: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
In this lesson, you will explore expressing and conveying emotions through facial expressions, drawing inspiration from the work of Käthe Kollwitz.

Collage Masks (Pre-K)

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

Tempera Painting, Lesson 3: Mixing Tints and Browns

Media Types: Painting
Grade Bands: 3-5, K-2
Overview: In this lesson, students will practice creating secondary colors, tints, and browns.  Students will understand that  ​​Students will be able…

Landscape: Vision and Verse 

Media Types: Drawing
Grade Bands: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
In this lesson, you will make sketches of landscapes inspired by Chinese landscape paintings, photos, or personal memories. 

Value Exploration

Media Types: Drawing
Grade Bands: 6-8, 9-12
In this lesson, students will experiment with creating value in a drawing.

Drawing an Object with Value

Media Types: Drawing
Grade Bands: 6-8, 9-12
In this lesson, students will use value to create volume in a drawing of a round object.

Mixing Purple

Media Types: Painting
Grade Bands: K-2, Pre-K
In this activity, children will explore painting with red and blue and mix a new color—purple!