Describes a collage technique which uses styrofoam to obtain a multidimensional image. (SJL)

Describes eight art activities using ceramics. Elementary students created ceramic tiles to depict ancient Egyptian and medieval European art, made ceramic cookie stamps, traced bisque plates on sketch paper, constructed clay room-tableaus, and designed clay relief masks. Secondary students pit-fired ceramic pots and designed ceramic Victorian…

Presents detailed instructions for the design and construction of simple reed baskets. Directions cover materials preparation, basic designs, and methods for giving baskets a finished appearance. (AM)

It is suggested that sandstone makes a good inexpensive medium for sand sculpture. It is available at foundries, or it can be made out of sand. Two formulas for making sandstone are included. (KC)

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)

Clay sculpture is difficult to produce because of the requirements of kiln firing. The problems can be overcome by modeling the original manikin head and making a plaster mold, pressing molding slabs of clay into the plaster mold to form the hollow clay armature, and sculpting on the armature. (IS)

Describes three art activities for the Christmas holidays. Upper-elementary art classes create a life-size Santa's workshop decorated with paper-mache gingerbread cookies. Kindergarten children draw the king and queen of Christmas. Elementary and secondary students decorate store windows for holidays and community celebrations. (AM)

Describes how the Japanese style of ink painting called sumi-e can be taught to middle school students. After preparation of materials and demonstration of sumi-e by the teacher, students are ready to paint bamboo. In spite of the formalized method of learning stroke order, they often create highly original compositions. (CS)

Describes six art activities for elementary and secondary art classes. Activities include designing a noise-making machine, the painting of pointillist pictures, drawing street scenes and still life photographs, making visual transparency projections to supplement student art history reports, and doing sketches of popcorn. (AM)

Instructions are provided for creating three-dimensional designs by plaster coating honeycomb paper. (SJL)

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)

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)