An art activity which involved elementary students in making coiled clay constructions is described. (RM)

A first-grade teacher describes how she taught her students to weave using real yarn. (RM)

Pictograms--assemblages of geometrical shapes that represent parts of the body--simply and vividly show how the body moves. They can be used to help elementary students draw larger figures and have confidence in drawing people. The pictograms also encourage children to look at shapes and details that artists use. (RM)

Described is an art course in which fifth-grade students made masks using low fire whiteware as the medium. (RM)

Since 1976, the students of Yuma District #1, Arizona, have been participating in an art exchange project with schools in many other countries, as a way of developing international understanding. (SJL)

Following a "building code" specified by their art teacher, sixth-graders designed and built cardboard townhouses to serve as permanent hallway decorations in their school. This article is one of four in this issue describing elementary level mural projects. (SJL)

Young Artists is the annual exhibition of student art work from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, public schools, which is displayed from late May to early September in the museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center. The program is described and some of the winning artwork is reproduced. (RM)

Working in small groups, fifth graders designed and made a ceramic title mural that became a permanent display in the school entryway. The project is described. (RM)

The annual Detroit public school's art exhibitions, held for the past 46 years at the Detroit Institute of Arts, are part of a long and lively tradition of cooperation between the museum and the city schools. The program is described. (RM)

Described is an art activity in which sixth graders were asked to draw something that they hear. The children created aural pictures that were truly inventive personal interpretations. (RM)

In this interdisciplinary art and science program elementary school children visited a planetarium, learned about astronomy, and created cosmic art. Integrating art and science allows students to take a more unified look at the many parts of the world. (RM)

How an art school was set up at home is described. A profile of a class is presented. Photographs of the ceramic sculptures made by children attending the school are included. (RM)

The Crayola Dream-Makers exhibition, which consists of 100 two- and three-dimensional works of art in which second, third, and fourth graders from all over the United States depict their dreams for themselves and their world is described. Samples of the children's art are included. (RM)

Describes Vermont's Art Exchange Program and its goal of sensitizing Soviet and U.S. children to the common humanity they share. Discusses this program's attempts to break down barriers of fear and stereotyping by promoting the exchange of art and writing between children. (KO)

To have more contact with children who particularly desired her help, an itinerant art teacher set up a box in each school where students could voluntarily leave their artwork for her to comment on and return later. The week's outstanding products were displayed in the cafeteria "art gallery." (SJL)