Fibers and fabrics provide the raw materials for a great variety of art activities that are adaptable to practically all grade levels. Here are some stitchery projects for the art teacher with a limited budget for supplies. (Author/RK)

Ten guidelines are offered for providing art experiences for blind young children include adding sound, smell, or taste whenever possible. Suggested activities include making styrofoam-toothpick sculptures, box sculptures, tape and feather collages, torn paper collages, and fingerpaintings. (DB)

Classroom teachers are in a unique position to help children develop an aesthetic awareness. Suggestions for an art appreciation program and materials are discussed. (MT)

Junior high school students studied the cultural uses, symbolic meanings, and general physical forms of tombs and tombstones and then used basic slab building techniques to construct large clay grave markers. (RM)

This art activity involves secondary students in sculpturing netsukes, Japanese carvings dating back to the seventeenth century, from bars of soap. How the activity can be adapted for use with elementary students is also discussed. (RM)

Discusses Picasso's freestanding sculpture Baboon and Young, and art activities for using the sculpture with elementary and secondary students are suggested. A listing of resources is also included. (RM)

An art activity to help preschool and first-grade children practice folding skills, explore methods and patterns of order and arrangement, and use counting skills is described. (RM)

Four art activities for high school students are described: (1) weaving using a vegetable sack; (2) creating kaleidoscope designs, from which students selected a unique, basic shape for a personalized belt buckle; (3) making boomerangs which, when thrown, return to the point of departure; and (4) constructing a mosaic in the school hall. (RM)

Providing a papermaking unit in the art program taps students' creativity in many ways. (RM)

Techniques to help art students in grades 3-12 make soap sculptures are described. From a series of wild doodles students choose a single striking shape to render in soap. (RM)

An art lesson for teaching intermediate and secondary level students the fundamentals of printmaking is provided. Basic printmaking vocabulary and techniques are introduced. (RM)

Images created with copy machines make children feel successful, as their work acquires the authority of being printed. Students can learn advanced processes like electrostatic image-making and can get involved in projects like making collages. They acquire an appreciation of design and of two-dimensional composition. (CS)

Plastic drinking straws can be used, with students of all ages, to weave a belt. (AM)