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Places that Shape Us: Leroy Johnson 

Media Types: Painting
Grade Bands: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
In this lesson, you will make a collage inspired by a place that is important to you, using paper and other materials to represent its shapes, textures, and details. You will look closely at the artwork of Leroy Johnson for inspiration.

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.