The author describes how her eighth-grade class created food packaging designs parodying actual supermarket products. (SJL)

Described are the methods and materials for an introductory sculpture experience in the Bauhaus foundation program. Bauhaus, a German art school founded in 1918, stressed science and technology as major resources for art and architecture. Hand-held sculptures were created to increase tactile sensitivity and three-dimensional spatial concepts. (KC)

Described is the wild fowl carving, an arts project in the Environmental Arts Program of New Providence, New Jersey. Projects included ducks, decoys, and shore birds. (KC)

The author suggests ocean life as a motivating theme for the elementary art curriculum. (SJL)

Describes an art project, based on the work of artist Chew Teng Beng, in the molding of wet paper on a plaster cast to create embossed paper designs. The values of such a project are outlined, including a note that its tactile approach makes it suitable to visually handicapped students. (SJL)

Describes a particular method for visualizing and presents related classroom art activities requiring careful observation of an external reality and the embellishment of it through purposeful imagination. (Author/SJL)

Outlines a wood carving project for secondary art students. Includes tips on materials and tool use. (SJL)

Outlines procedures for a junior high art project in making ceramic masks, which may be tied in with the study of mask-making cultures. (SJL)

Profiles one high school teacher's humanities course, which emphasizes human expression through art. (RL)

Complete instructions, materials needed, and approximate costs are given for constructing a kiln for firing Raku ceramics. (SJL)

A project is described that involved elementary school students in painting murals to enhance their school's interior. (DS)

Twenty-four paper craft projects for elementary school children. (CM)

Young artists pay tribute to the spirit of "seventy-six" at the Lincoln Junior High School in La Crosse, Wisconsin, by creating clay sculptures. (Author/RK)

Offers some observations about child art and some research findings in this area. Attempts to establish the basis for accepting child art as art. (Author/RK)

Describes how students, influenced by Victorian architecture, created ceramic slab houses. Students devised a solution to depict the reflective nature of Victorian bay windows. Project incorporates art history, handbuilding, and surface ornamentation. Outlines and illustrates steps involved in making slab houses that can be adapted for use by…