Me & My Monster
Students learn about visual poetry, create a poem about a monster helper, draw a self-portrait, and rearrange their poems in a visual way with the self-portrait.
Primary Material: Colored Pencils
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Embracing Challenges
Students learn about artists who faced different mental and physical challenges, and complete a recycled sculpture by getting their own series of challenges.
Primary Material: Recycled Materials
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Designing the Zodiac
Students learn about constellations across many different cultures and create their own constellation and write their own origin story.
Primary Material: Oil pastels, watercolor
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Artist, Explorer, Scientist
Students learn John Audubon & scientific drawing. They choose an animal, research it, and draw an accurate picture in it’s habitat. They finish by creating prints.
Primary Material: Pencil, printmaking
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Superheroes
Students learn to recognize shapes and types of lines as they design and draw their own superheroes.
Primary Materials: Collage, watercolor
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The Secret Language of Objects
Students learn how objects can represent an idea, or serve as symbols. They use symbols to create an artwork that can tell a story.
Primary Material: colored pencils
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Symbol & Self
Students create metaphorical self-portraits.
Primary Material: Colored pencil
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Anthropomorphic Animals
Students choose an animal, draw it realistically from photographs, and then use the background to show what human traits the animal has come to represent.
Primary Material: markers
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A Toy's Story
Students depict where their toys go in their imagination.
Primary Material: markers
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Dream House
Students build their ‘dream house’ then draw it using observation drawing.
Primary Material: Pencils, oil pastels
Blocks (lower) recycled building supplies (upper)
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Tiny Still Lives
Students build a small sculpture of their choice from recycled materials, then draw it using observation skills on large paper. They finish with paint.
Primary Material: recycled building materials, pencil, tempera paint
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Totem Animals
Students learn about the importance of animals to Indigenous people. They create a self-portrait that uses animals to symbolize themselves and, if they wish, their family.
Primary Material: tempera paint
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Create-a-Creature
Students learn about hybrid creatures in mythology, then create their own.
Primary Material: Pencils, paint, printmaking
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Persian Miniatures
Students learn about Persian Miniatures. They then create an illustration of a story or poem using an engraving technique.
Primary Materials: markers, crayon, black tempera, engraving supplies (e.g., toothpicks)
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Near & Far
Student artists create a landscape of somewhere they have always wanted to see and visit (older students use ‘Google Maps’ to virtually visit, younger students create a collaged book of ideas). They then learn about how color can change the ‘mood’ of a painting.
Primary Material: collage, pencil, tempera paint
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Around the Neighborhood
Students learn about Jacob Lawrence and the Harlem Renaissance. They make a collage that depicts their own neighborhood, with a focus on color.
Primary Material: Drawing, Collage materials
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Mexican Alebrije
Students learn about the history and creation of a Mexican folk art called Alebrije. Students create their own imaginary creatures. There is an emphasis on color choices and texture.
Primary Materials: collage, oil pastel, watercolor
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Close Encounters
Students study the woman artist ‘Georgia O’Keeffe’. They bring in objects that are special to them and draw them, closely considering their own compositions as they work.
Primary Material: drawing, watercolor
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Enchanted Lands
Students learn about compositional elements as they create a magical setting that could host fairy tales.
Primary Material: collage, tempera paint
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Rainforest Creature Marionettes
Students learn about animal defense mechanisms and invent an animal ideally suited to live in the rainforest. They create a marionette puppet of their invention.
Primary Materials: paper towel tubes, tissue paper & glue, drawing
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