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Imaginary Spaces: Designing a Play Space
Students apply their enthusiasm for imaginary play to create their own imaginary play space. In this novice architectural design lesson plan, students arrange and glue pre-cut foam shapes to a cardboard base to set up their play space....
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Butterfly Mobile
For this butterfly mobile craft project worksheet, students color and cut out the patterns of a butterfly. Students follow the directions to construct a butterfly mobile.
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Artist Webelos Activity Workbook
In this art activity, students complete a variety of art activities and keep track of them using the paper and additional web links are on the other page.
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Traditional Mexican Paper Cutting
Students examine the art form of Mexican paper cutting and discover how to make a pattern. After reading the book "Look What Came From Mexico", they discuss Mexican folk art and view some samples. Individually they create a Mexican...
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Integrated Social Studies and PE Fine Motor Lesson
Fourth graders study the Civil War and Indiana's participation in the war. In groups, they choose a person from the Civil War and create a "bio bottle" of that person. They use fine motor skills to create and dress a model of that...
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Witches' Pots
Students make a Halloween project and then write the procedure on how to make the witch.
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Watercolor Rainbow Fish
Students experience an art project as a follow up to reading The Rainbow Fish.
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Valentine Colors
Students celebrate Valentines day by creating an art project. In this holiday lesson, students discuss Valentine's Day and it's meaning, then create a Valentine colored painting using red tissue paper and paint.
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Fall Number Trees
Students practice counting. In this counting lesson, students find nine leaves outside and collect them. They glue these leaves on a pre-drawn fall tree.
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Butterfly Surprise
Students make a butterfly from art materials. In this butterfly project lesson, students use tissue paper, pom poms, wiggly eyes, and tongue depressors to make a butterfly. There are games, songs, and a recipe on the same page.
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Kool Colors
Students practice creating art with household items. In this tie dye lesson, students utilize packets of Kool-Aid, warm water and vinegar to create die. Students twist rubber bands on white t-shirts and dip the segments to create a...
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Hallo-Wiener Lesson Plan
Students listen to the story The Hallo-Wiener by Dav Pilkey in order to learn about the "monster" character. In this reading and art instructional activity, students cut a "bun" from beige construction paper, cut out an image of the main...
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The American Flag
Students participate in an activity that teaches them what the stars and stripes on the American flag represent. They listen to the book, "The Story of the American Flag" read by the teacher. They complete an art project where they...
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Personal Memories
Students create an artistic classroom memory place for objects that represent an important moment in their lives.
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Eric Carle Author Study
Students view the Eric Carle web page, formulate questions about his work, and e-mail the questions to him. Selections from his book lists are made, art projects created, and communication set up with the author.