Experimental printmaking can be exciting, rewarding, and inexpensive. High school students explored four different ways to create relief prints from odds and ends and scrap materials. (RM)

Secondary students utilize a simplified technique to make silk screen prints, which can be printed onto T-shirts. The only materials needed from art suppliers are a few squeegees and a few yards of polyester screen mesh. (RM)

One kind of printmaking that offers nice results with little complication and a minimum of materials is monoprinting with masks. The process is described. (RM)

The basics of four processes--serigraphy, intaglio, lithography, and relief--can be taught with low-cost tools and materials. A secondary-level semester course is described. (RM)

Describes activities for high school art classes designed to increase student understanding about the role of structure in art. Activities deal with ways of directing student attention to the mental process of structuring and to the effects of color, line quality, and textures on structure. (AM)

How high school students used foam to create three-dimensional forms on a large scale is described. The students made sculptures that they wore in a Mardi-Gras celebration. (RM)

Two high school art students designed and constructed papier-mache marionettes. Directions for marionette construction are included. (AM)

All ages can enjoy printmaking activities, from a simple glue line relief print to an aluminum foil relief which gives the impression of metal embossing. Projects which can be geared to all levels of elementary education are described. (RM)

Presents four ceramics activities for secondary-level art classes. Included are directions for primitive kiln construction and glaze making. Two ceramics design activities are described in which students make bizarrely-shaped lidded jars, feet, and footwear. (AM)

Describes eight art activities using ceramics. Elementary students created ceramic tiles to depict ancient Egyptian and medieval European art, made ceramic cookie stamps, traced bisque plates on sketch paper, constructed clay room-tableaus, and designed clay relief masks. Secondary students pit-fired ceramic pots and designed ceramic Victorian…

When fifth-grade students were first introduced to abstract imagery in printmaking, the adjustment from figurative shapes to nonrepresentative forms was difficult for them. To make them more comfortable with the development of abstract ideas and forms, the students' initials were used. (RM)

Fifth-grade students used their bodies to form a design on blueprint paper. The end result was a frieze, which was used to brighten hallways. (RM)

Describes six elementary art activities which integrate art with other subjects. Students make cloth patchwork banners, bark rubbings, posters, full-sized paper cut-outs of singing children, and optical drawings. An arts enrichment day for bilingual children with visual arts, music, and dance demonstrations is also discussed. (AM)

Presents detailed instructions for the design and construction of simple reed baskets. Directions cover materials preparation, basic designs, and methods for giving baskets a finished appearance. (AM)