Instructions are given for a beginning project in mosaic. (SJL)

Describes the process for etching designs onto mirrors. (SJL)

Describes a high school student's growing involvement with a pottery project. (SP)

The zoetrope, ancestor of the motion picture, is a spinning cylinder in which a strip of drawings take on movement. This article provides instructions for building this device and outlines an animation project for third- through seventh-graders. (SJL)

Instructions are given for making inexpensive plaster face casts and decorating them as masks. This art project was used with a fifth grade class. (SJL)

Described is a Ceramic Clayathon, the purpose of which was to inspire and infuse spirit through the cross-fertilization of ideas. Four high schools were involved and events included no-handed-clay, tallest clay form, crazy coil, etc. Pictures of winning entries are included. (KC)

As an "ice-breaker" activity for the beginning of the school year, the authors had their students create art products from food. (SJL)

Illustrated instructions are provided for using a sand casting process to make pewter jewelry with wood inlays. (SJL)

A chess set project is suggested to teach multiple throwing, the creation on a potter's wheel of several pieces of similar configuration. Processes and finished sets are illustrated with photographs. (SJL)

The pots described in this article evolved through a process of pressing objects into clay pieces for textural impressions and arranging these impressed pieces together for an overall pattern. (Author)

Detailed instructions are given for creating small boxes or caskets from clay slabs. (SJL)

Author used animals as the basis for art activities thus giving greater insight into their conceptions of what animals are really like. (RK)

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)