Creative dramatics offer the educator a variety of uses in the development of children's language arts proficiency and psychomotor skill level. (LH)

Describes one summer offering of the Palo Alto schools which correlates productive activities with appreciation for art. (Author/RK)

In centers for young workers, education forms a link between work and leisure; efforts are made to give young workers incentives for personal development, directed at becoming total human beings in a physical as well as a spiritual sense. (JD)

Maintains that expense and lack of experience with glazes and firing the kiln need not prevent teachers from using clay in the classroom. Describes how author experimented with clay and fibers and subsequently devised numerous art activities for elementary school students. (KM)

Describes how the author, motivated by Esther Krichevsky's fishprints, introduced fishprinting to a middle school. Students explored the origin of fishprinting and other Japanese arts as well as learned about printmaking, collage, and painting. Maintains that, for children to grow creatively, they need freedom to experiment. (KM)

This handbook, designed for use with preschool and elementary age children, is based on the premise that the focus of the art program should be upon encouraging children to create art as a way of expressing feelings and communicating ideas. The value of art activities for young children lies in the process of creation rather than in the finished…

Presented are activities relating science and Halloween. (PB)

Describes a Parent Teacher Association (PTA) sponsored program of after-school activities available to the district's elementary students. (IRT)

Argues that creative dramatics offers many outlets for expression and creative activity to children who are shy, unable to speak up and act out imaginary adventures, or who lack confidence or self-esteem. (RB)

Describes an entertaining approach to use in stimulating creative thinking in elementary science. (JMB)

Here are 12 ideas for combining the Christmas season and some creative learning activities for young students. (RK)

Provides an account of an animation film project that was conducted in a public alternative school for teenage drug abusers. Demonstrates how students can plan and shoot a film with a minimum of teacher involvement or direction. (RL)

Describes how the story theatre technique was used in a class of Canadian vocational students with reading difficulties. (RL)

Describes a teaching technique in which students in a United States history class created rebuses describing significant historical events. A rebus is a riddle in which words or syllables are represented by pictures of objects whose names resemble the intended words. (AV)

Real and fanciful trees can sprout facts and creative fantasy in your classroom. (Editor)