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Keeping Us in Stitches Activity: Crazy-Quilt Collage Design

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students create collages using the irregular-shaped and sized pieces, decorative stitching, and applied or painted motifs that reflect the Crazy-Quilt style, and explain how and why their design fits into that style.
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Media Collage

For Teachers K - 12th
Students create "media Collages" out of labels from boxes, bottles, and cans, and other found objects in this Art lesson for all ages. Adaptations are included for younger and older students. Lesson also includes a writing option for...
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Year Book Page Special Shape Collage

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students design a collage of pictures for a yearbook that make a shape. They determine the area of the shape and the price of putting the collage in the yearbook.
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Pablo Picasso Collage

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students read the story SAIL AWAY by Donald Crew to show different pictures of water and oceans. They are then introduced to a collage showing examples of Picasso's work. They construct a collage using different methods.
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Puzzle Trees

For Teachers K - 4th
Elementary artists use a collage and multi-media technique to create textured trees. They study the fall trees, discussing texture and what bare trees look like. They then use a variety of materials to create a textural piece. 
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Picture Collage Book Report: Voltaire's Candide

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Here's an alternative to a traditional book report for your class to demonstrate that they understand and can articulate the main character's evolution and the social themes presented in Voltaire's satirical novel Candide. Your young...
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What Can a Leaf Be?

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students identify leaves for an art project and create a collage. In this leaf lesson, students review leaf characteristics. Students use leaves to create a collage of an animal or creature. Students write recipes of leaves for their...
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Adjective Word Art

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students describe fathers using Word Art. In this adjectives lesson, students discuss the attributes of their fathers and then design adjective collages that feature the adjectives that describe good fathers.
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Storage Hunt

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students create visual examples of each type of storage that should be found incorporated throughout the home. They also visually identify the difference between built-in storage and furniture storage. Students then create two collages...
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Poem Collage

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders read a descriptive language poem and then create a collage of what they feel the poem means to them. In this poems lesson plan, 7th graders take notes on the poem, and make the collage in groups.
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Art Is More Than Just a Pretty Picture

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners create unique art piece from litter. In this visual art lesson, students learn the importance of recycling and create a unique art piece. Learners construct collages.
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Summer Safety Activity: Time to Tidy Up

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students find that cleaning up can be easy. For this early childhood lesson, students practice fine motor skills while making their classroom more safe. Students create large storage boxes.
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All About Me

For Teachers 2nd - Higher Ed
Students use writing and research strategies to explore their interests and reflect on what makes them unique. They use the website "Shutterfly" to create a classroom profile. They create a personal collage highlighting what makes them...
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Very Hungry Caterpillar - Tissue College

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners create tissue collages using paints, tissue paper, and glue in this cross-curricular art/literature lesson based upon the artwork of Eric Carle. Emphasis is placed upon the term collage and practicing collaging techniques.
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Communication

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students identify good listening and talking skills and discuss verbal, written, and non-verbal communication. They create collages of magazine pictures demonstrating non-verbal communication.
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What does it mean to be American?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create a mural depicting what it means to be an American. In this being American lesson plan, students pull out magazine ads that depict what it means to be an American, then they make a mural out of it, and finally they present...
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Start at the Very Beginning

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore ocean ecosystems. In this cross curriculum art and oceans lesson, students create a collage featuring three-finger algae using sand paper, tissue paper, and construction paper.
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Narrative Collage

For Teachers K - 6th
Students use a book or passage for their inspiration to create a narrative collage. They need to illustrate the action or the setting.
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Miriam Schapiro Action Figures Collage

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create a background with a marbling technique. They plan and create a figure from assorted papers, mixing solids and patterns. Students glue the figure to the background, and embellish negative space with glitter.
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Journaling

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify, record, and process lessons completed through various service-learning activities. They create two-sided copies of the journal cover on colored paper and decorate so that it shows through both sides. Students then...
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Positive/negative Shapes, Shamrocks And Matisse

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students make shamrock collages.
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People Everywhere

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify people of different ages, cultural backgrounds, traditions, and careers and explain how they contribute to the community. Then they create a collage of different people of a community with 100% accuracy. ...
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Montage

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders create unique montages based on a theme, using pictures from magazines with each montage taking up the specified space determined by the background paper.
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Artful Boomerangs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers create and decorate a boomerang. In this boomerang lesson, students research the history of the boomerang and the three different types. They create their own boomerang and decorate it with a collage of pictures.