How high school students used foam to create three-dimensional forms on a large scale is described. The students made sculptures that they wore in a Mardi-Gras celebration. (RM)

Elementary school children are given cards containing specific criteria for doing one or two tasks: sorting or arranging rocks. Sorting tasks involve children in picking out rocks with particular characteristics, such as color or shape. In the arranging tasks children are asked to arrange rocks according to size or value. (RM)

Contemporary ceramic artist William Daly's stoneware work entitled "Shang Play" is discussed. Art activities to help elementary and secondary students learn about ceramic art are suggested. (RM)

One of the most common disposable materials in our society is polystyrene, of which grocery store meat trays, egg cartons, and several kinds of protective packing materials are made. Describes the characteristics of five different polystyrenes and some suggested uses for art classes. (RM)

Creating and using rubber stamps motivates even students who feel frustrated by more traditional art lessons. Examples of ways teachers can have students make and use stamps in the classroom are provided. (RM)

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)

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)

Onfim's drawings, discovered in a medieval town in northern Russia in 1951, are the earliest known child drawings in existence. The history of these early 11th century drawings is described here by a Russian archaeologist. (RM)

Recently an outstanding cross-section of works from Van Gogh's Arlesian period was on exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. His works are discussed; some samples are included. (RM)

Using the rub-out process to draw the human head, students begin with drawings that are initially executed in dark tones. The process calls for the student to rub out the pure white areas, building the image by showing the light that strikes the face. (RM)

How college art students made drawings using color is described. The activity helped the students analyze how they drew lines, shadows, and highlights. (RM)