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Note Taking By Crayon
Skim a brief biography of Amelia Earhart with your class, and then assign groups of researchers one of four topics listed: Amelia's family life, important airplane flights during Amelia's life, turning points in Amelia's life, and...
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Crayon Resist Fall Leaves
Students create examples of fall leaves using crayons, paints, and white paper in this fall Art instructional activity for the early-elementary classroom. Emphasis is placed upon a class lecture/discussion about why leaves change color...
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The Crayon Box that Talked
Students explore The Crayon Box that Talked. In this language arts lesson, students listen to the story and discuss the meaning of the vocabulary words. Students use the vocabulary words in a sentence.
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Graphing Grazy Crayons
Children create crazy crayons they made to sort and construct a floor bar graph. Then, using technology resources, they make a simple bar graph to compare the top four colors produced. Students will then interpret the printed graph by...
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Identify the Element of Line
Students explore the element of "line." In this beginning art lesson, students listen to the book Harold and the Purple Crayon, then describe the types of lines Harold drew. Students identify straight lines, jagged lines, curvy lines,...
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Learning about Maps and Colors
First graders discuss "Harold and the Purple Crayon" and his drawings. In this neighborhood geography lesson, 1st graders learn to detect and classify places on a map including their home. Students recognize their address as a specific...
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Crayon Etching
Students watch a demonstration of a crayon etched drawing and create one. They scratch through a layer of black crayon to reveal bright colors underneath.
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The Big Squeeze
Young scholars observe what happens as crayon shavings are melted and/or pressed together. They compare this to the process some rocks go through as they are heated and compressed naturally on earth.
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Trout Are Made of Trees Crayon Mural
Students recognize that for a trout habitat to be ideal, several components must be present. In this trout instructional activity, students explore what makes a healthy stream. Students create paintings for a mural of a trout habitat....
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Watercolor Leaves
Create your own fall landscape in kindergarten! After listening to a story about fall and discussing why leaves change colors, young learners use the crayon resist technique and color resist art technique to craft their own illustrations.
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Emily Carr Trees
Students examine the work of artist Emily Carr. In this watercolor instructional activity, students observe how to draw trees and to use crayon resistance. Students also create a watercolor tree.
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All About Adjectives and Alliteration
Students brainstorm a list of words to describe textures. They remove the wrappers from Crayola Crayons. Students take their crayons and manila paper on a texture hunt. They choose a rubbing appropriate to texture adjective.
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Crayon Resist Rainforest Specimens
Students experience textures both tactually and visually; first through the process of crayon rubbings and then through the process of crayon resist. They also use textures and papers to create a rain forest.
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Halves, Thirds, and Sixths
An excellent activity that effectively pulls together the concepts of area, fractions, and equivalent fractions! Using 3x2 rectangular arrays, 3rd graders are introduced to the concept of area in terms of square units. Building on this...
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Number TIC TAC TOE
Working in pairs, young mathematicians will practice number identification with a game of tic-tac-toe. Supplies needed: two 3x3 grids with numbers 1-9 in random order, and two different colored crayons. Player 1 will choose and read a...
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Musical Moods
To celebrate diversity and the purpose of Harmony Day, the class examines culturally diverse music and expression through line drawing. They discuss that all cultures produce music and that music can convey mood just like art can. As the...
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Winter Wonderland Painting
The examples of art at the top of this page speak for themselves. Here is a fun and lovely project that gets kids outside to observe how snow falls on trees and how various trees are structured. They use crayons, tempera paint, and...
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Let's Go Buggie!
To celebrate art youth month, little ones get out the magnifying glasses and get close-up with bugs. They make scientific observations of bugs you bring into the classroom. Then, they use markers, clay, paint, or crayons to make artistic...
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Flat Stanley
The geography of the United States is the focus of this lesson, as well as writing friendly letters. Your second graders read, "Flat Stanley," by Jeff Brown. They create their own Flat Stanley out of poster board, markers, crayons and...
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Learning to Resist: Watercolor
Consider wax resist drawings as a way to bridge art and science. Learners view, discuss, and practice drawing insects or animals using waxy crayons. They pay attention to the creature's features as they create images with watercolor and...
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Koi Pond
Create this beautiful koi pond scene using watercolor paper, crayons, and paints. This would be a fantastic project to link to a scientific study of pond life or a historical study of Japanese culture.
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Rainbow Number Line
Guide your kindergartners to create memorable, colorful number lines that they will use throughout the school year. Using sentence strip and a black marker or card stock printed in a teachers font, create traceable numbers from 1 to 20...
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"Starry Night"
Give your artistic students a chance to express movement in art found in the fabulous painting, Starry Night. They'll examine the piece and then make their own version using tempera paint, white pencil, crayons, and construction paper....
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Chenille Stem Stitchery
The works of Spanish painter Joan Miro are used to inspire young artists to create their own colorful works of art using stitchery canvas and yarn. Kids draw their design on plastic canvas using erasable crayons and then stitch the...
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