Primary students designed dragons for a billboard advertising activity to promote Youth Art Month. After selecting head, midsection, and tail designs, the students enlarged the drawings for a billboard image. (AM)

The work of master artists is an inspiring motivational source for students in their formative years. First and second grade students can create stylized athletes with pipe cleaners after the works of Alberta Giacometti. Fifth grade students can create paper sculptures in the style of Eugene Delacroix. (AM)

Perceptual motor dysfunctions may not allow children with learning and behavior problems to perform as most children do. A successful art activity for these children is construction using wood scraps. (SR)

Activities involving photographs stimulate visual perceptual awareness. Children understand visual stimuli before having verbal capacity to deal with the world. Vision becomes the primary means for learning, understanding, and adjusting to the environment. Photography can provide an effective avenue to visual literacy. (Author)

Discusses how elementary school children perceive abstract art and describes activities used to increase their appreciation of abstract art. Students draw dinosaurs and discuss the variations in their drawings. Two movement activities which reinforce concepts about abstraction are described. (AM)

Describes an eight-week program in which 8- to 14-year-olds learned to spin raw wool into yarn. Students observed wool shearing at a sheep farm, learned to prepare wool for spinning, and spun their own yarn. Detail directions for carding and use of hand spindles are included. (AM)

How to make a kite. (SJL)

Suggests art and visual awareness activities appropriate to different subject areas. (SJL)

Describes how a teacher used his travel experiences in Iran as a basis for an art project with his fifth and sixth grade students--building a model Near Eastern village out of clay. (SJL)

Describes the process of "canning"--applying textile pigment or dye to cloth by moving a pigment-filled can across the fabric to create a linear design. This printing process is described as low-cost, easy, and suitable for all age and artistic levels. (Author/SJL)

Describes a sculpture project for emotionally disturbed children conducted by a New York artist. (SJL)

Discusses the usefulness of instant cameras with all ages of students and in all subject areas. (SJL)

Geometric string constructions are said to provide mildly mentally retarded students with concrete visual and artistic notions of geometry. (CL)

The author discusses the nature of graffiti and suggests ways of understanding it and combatting it--by the use of murals, vines, shrubbery, and designed-in barriers. (KC)

Instructions are provided for a four-week high school art project in creating soft sculpture figures out of fiberfill and cloth over wire forms. (SJL)