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Textured Animals - Stuffed Animal Still Life

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
After posing their stuffed animals your young artists will sketch them in light colored chalk. After sketching, the second graders fill the animal with lines to show the fur, or texture of the animal. They put a shadow under their...
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Fall Perspective Landscape

For Teachers K - 2nd
Fall can be a beautiful time of year with leaves and bright colors everywhere! Little ones can explore the wonders of fall as they create perspective landscapes showing a fall scene. They work on creating a foreground, background and...
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Geometric Collages

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the concept of geometric patterning. They create their own patterns with a few basic requirements. The patterns must illustrate the concepts of flipping, 90 and 180 degree rotations. The collages also consist...
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Clothing Color Wheel

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students are introduced to the primary, secondary and tertiary colors. Individually, they are to create a color wheel with all three levels of colors in a creative way. To end the lesson plan, they present their wheel to the class and...
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Focus on Batiks

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils discover the characteristics of batik fabrics. Using the fabric, they create a tulip garden wall hanging. They review warm and cool colors and use various stitching techniques for the stems and leaves. They share their...
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National Gallery of Canada

My Abstraction

For Teachers K - 3rd
What makes a color warm, and what makes a color cool? Explore colors and abstract art through an observation activity and an art assignment. Learners look at images and talk about colors before making their own compositions with...
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Match Shapes in Compositions

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders draw shapes that are congruent with each other and identify other congruent shapes. In this congruency lesson plan, 3rd graders also apply specific colors from the color wheel in their shapes.
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Investigating Properties of Water: Temperature

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Investigate how temperature affects the density of water and stratification that occurs in bodies of water when temperatures vary. Water of differing temperatures is given different colors to see the layers that form. The lesson is meant...
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Color Me Happy: Color, Mood, and Tone

For Teachers 9th - 12th
This lesson plan introduces students to the ways artists use color to set the tone of a painting or to convey a particular mood to the viewer. Students view "The Tragedy" by Pablo Picasso. They fill in an information chart describing the...
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Masks Across Cultures

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine various masks from different cultures. In groups, they review vocabulary related to expressing emotions in art. They work together to create a mask using the techniques described to them and representing a season. ...
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Andy Warhol Animals

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students view and identify the colors on the color wheel. After viewing a PowerPoint, they discuss the reasons why animals become endangered. They examine the life and works of Andy Warhol and review contour drawing. To end the...
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Happy Accidents with Watercolors

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students practice the basic characteristics of painting with watercolors. They learn basic color theory using the color wheel and will be able to identify primary and secondary colors.
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"3-D" Painting

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students experiment with color using tints and shades of at least 2 hues and create a 3-D painting/mobile.
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Color

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students color in one of Keith Haring's design 3 different ways to compare how color effects a drawing. In this color lesson plan, students display their paintings and compare them as a class.
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Color Me Happy: Color, Mood, and Tone

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners identify color schemes in paintings and discuss the ways in which color is used to convey a mood or tone in a work of art.
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Sculpture in Relief

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create an abstract wall relief that incorporates the use of free form shapes, lines, movement, & color. They use oak tag, toilet paper holders and glue to create their sculptures.
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Clue In On Color

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students consider the effects of color on moods and feelings. They participate in a variety of demonstrations to explore the role of illusion and suggestion in human perception. They consider which color best represents their personality.
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Color Theory & Using Layers

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students practice layering colors while creating three distinct backgrounds using the educational software TealPaint in this High School Art and Technology lesson. A slideshow, a quiz, and a color PowerPoint Slide show are included.
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"Kookie Kitties" - Paul Klee: Finger Puppets

For Teachers K - 4th
Young scholars examine and discuss the painting, Cat and Bird, by Paul Klee. They identify the various types of lines, shapes, and colors in the painting, and design and create finger puppet versions of the animals from the painting.
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Pastel Drawing like Vincent Van Gogh

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners discuss the elements of art and design found in a series of flower paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. They explore art, shading, and color as they create mirrored representations of the master's art, using oil pastel. 
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The Black Prince at Crecy

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students analyze how artists have applied color relationships (value, intensity, tints, and shades, cool and warm colors) to create descriptive and expressive effects in artworks. They judge an artwork based on whether its organization...
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Mother's Day Wampum Beads

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders research the historical significance of Mother's Day and the cultural background of Wampum Beads. They create colorful Mother's Day gifts. They increase their knowledge of color theory.
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Abstract Flowers Inspired By Georgia O'Keeffe

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a drawing of a flower using Georgia O'Keeffe as their inspiration, then develop skills in drawing and composition. They explain the difference between realistic and abstract.
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"O'Keefe Flowers"

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Even the smallest things in nature are big when you paint like Georgia O'Keefe. Master the art of color choice and larger-than-life drawing with a lesson that helps little ones draw a normal object in a larger scale. This is a good art...

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