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Minoan Paintings

For Students 7th - 12th
In this art worksheet, students look at some pictures given of Minoan paintings. They describe the type of clothing worn by the Minoans, how they wore their hair, what their skin color was, and what colors seemed to be favored in the...
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Learning to Use Painting Tools to Change a Drawing

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students practice creating abstract art using computer software.  In this painting lesson plan, students discuss how great fairy tale characters have the ability to transform, as do images.  Students utilize a painting software program...
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"Gnomes" From Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky

For Students 4th - 6th
In this classical music appreciation worksheet, students listen to a recording of "Gnomes" from Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky. Students read about the composer and the structure of the piece. Students answer 5 questions...
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Manufacturing Technologies: Making a Picture Frame

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars use cereal boxes, paint, buttons and glue to design and make a frame for a photograph. They consider the different processes involved in making the frame and discuss how their observations apply to manufacturing systems...
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Matching Number Sentences to Pictures

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this number sentences worksheet, students, match through multiple choice answers, twelve number sentences to a selection of pictures.
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Descriptions of People-- Draw a Picture

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, students learn that clear written descriptions can paint a picture in the reader's mind. Students read 5 descriptions of people and draw a picture of each. Students then draw 5 more people and write their...
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Improving Descriptive Writing: Painting an Original Picture

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Descriptive writing is rich in sensory appeals and paints pictures in the minds of readers. Show young writers how to use an on-line thesaurus and a cliché website to create fresh, descriptive writing. The presentation ends with an...
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Tissue Painting

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
Let's make colors! Your class will participate in a creative art project that introduces them to the concept of color blending and allows them to discover color combinations through exploration, trail, and error. First, the teacher will...
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Making Paint

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover how paint is made, then create their own paint which they will use to create a picture. After witnessing the processes of emulsion and suspension, students work in groups to create their own paint, and then create...
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Paint a Wet-Into-Wet Watercolor

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Learners demonstrate the technique of painting wet-into-wet. In this painting activity, students create colors to paint with by mixing two or more colors together. Learners use water color to create various images.
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Tempera Paint Lesson Ideas

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students create an abstract, non-objective paintings. Students use the various lesson plans to create abstract paintings that include an art with text instructional activity, a sand textured paint instructional activity, and a radiating...
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Sail Boat Painting - Watercolors

For Teachers 1st
First graders become familiar with the artist Winslow Homer. They create a seascape scene combining Homer images and their own imagination. They use warm and cool colors. # utilize the wet and dry method of painting
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Masks Paper Collage

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders create a symmetrical mask using tempura paint that displays interesting visual texture after watching an Eric Carle video. They apply collage in the making of the mask.
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Picture-Perfect Portraits

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Children research the paintings of Italian artist Raphael and compare them to the works of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. They engage in close observations of one person while they prepare to paint a portrait. They create original,...
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Picture Sentences --All About School

For Teachers K - 1st
In this reading comprehension/visualization worksheet, young scholars study 5 pictures. From a list of 4 sentences, students match the appropriate sentence to the picture.
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Painter of the Caves

For Teachers 4th - 5th
What a great lesson! Learners read a story called Painters of the Caves by Patricia Lauber which discusses Stone Age wall paintings in Avignon, France. There is a series of discussion questions, comprehension questions, and a graphic...
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Details, Details, Details

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Writing can become one-dimensional if authors don't involve all their senses. First, scholars observe a strange object which, ideally, they can touch and even smell. Without using certain words (you can create a list or have the class...
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Bridge to Terabithia

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore scenes from Katherine Paterson's book, Bridge to Terabithia. In this visualization activity, students listen to the story read aloud. The students then choose words and phrases that paint a picture in their heads....
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Art Alive! - Towing a Boat, Honfleur

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Color, light and shadow, the placement and size of objects. These are some of the tools artists used to tell their stories. Model for learners how to read a painting by closely examining these features. The richly detailed packet...
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Social Realism

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Examine social strife in art. Class members first observe some pieces, and then find an image to inspire their own art. They outline the picture, analyze the composition, make alterations, and color their work.
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Painting Stones

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this painting worksheet, students follow the directions to paint a picture of stones with poster paint and sponges. There is no picture example; students read the directions.
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"Painting" More Expressive Language

For Teachers K - 1st
Students listen to the book Papa, Please Get The Moon For Me, by Eric Carle. They create an illustration using a computer paint program. Learners type one sentence describing their picture into a text box in the paint program to explain...
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Cave Art: Discovering Prehistoric Humans through Pictures

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore how people in earlier times used art as a way to record stories and communicate ideas by studying paintings from the Cave of Lascaux and other caves in France. Three lessons on one page.
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Christian Symbols

For Students 4th - 6th
In this Christian symbols worksheet, students do computer work on a program to figure out what certain Christian symbols mean, paint a picture of symbols, and write what they symbols mean. Students complete 5 tasks.